Aspirando et perseverando was and is the Avon Old Farms school motto - Richard Yates

To find order in chaos - why, of course; that was what he'd wanted all his life. He had been born for this, for finding order in chaos, and all the wasted years has been a mistake. To find order in chaos; to find order in chaos.

And from this distance they all did look like kids - boys and girls from far and wide with their cheap hand luggage and their Army duffel bags, brave entertainers who might travel for years before it occurred to them, or to most of them, that they weren't going anywhere.

Sumbitch wasn't even needed, that's the funny part; just some eager-beaver bastard couldn't mind his own business.