It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond.
Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.