I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.

At the beginning of a decade when everything was beginning to seem possible, nothing seemed impossible.

Becoming is better than being

I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.

The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favor during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the Acid Era--but nobody guessed back then that the experiment might churn up this kind of hangover: a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in anything.