I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.