Nothing ever holds together unless it is mixed with some of one's own blood
I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.
The imagination demands that life be told slant because of its need of distance.
My father was very outwardly religious.
When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.
I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.