"So to sleep on the sleeping porch required preparation. First, you put on long underwear, pajamas, jeans, a sweatshir…"

"Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces [in 1968]. The rest were in school, in prison, or were Geor…"

"Making models was reputed to be hugely enjoyable... But when you got the kit home and opened the box the contents tur…"

"And then suddenly I would realize that I couldn’t remember, hadn’t actually consciously experienced, any of the last …"

"In those days kitchen matches were heavy-duty implements—more like signal flares than the weedy sticks we get today. …"

""Wow, look at all the places you can park,” he said, as if for all these years he had been cruising endlessly, unable…"

"I knew more things in the first ten years of my life than I believe I have known at any time since. I knew everything…"

"He hit the water—impacted really is the word for it—at over six hundred miles an hour, with a report so loud that it …"

"I remember being profoundly amazed that anyone would suppose that a little wooden desk would provide a safe haven in …"

"Your brain is marvellously efficient. It requires only about 400 calories of energy a day — about the same as you get…"