This is a story of a period between two World Wars - an interim in which Insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and Humanity was kicked around somewhat.

I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.

If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window.

Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities - a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.

Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security.

So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!