He later recalled that after growing up in Iowa as a Quaker orphan, he was 10 years old before he realized he could do something for the sheer joy of it without offending God.

• 他后来回忆起作为一个爱荷华州的地震孤儿，他十岁前就懂得真正的快乐不能建立在冒犯上帝的基础上。