When you flip anything, you really you just have to have the courage of your convictions.

I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you “sir” and “madam,” and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of “what is done” and “what is not done,” and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena

She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous.

But I was a pure romantic, and only operating with half my burners turned on.

I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up.

My mother was independent. She had grown up in Dalton and Pittsfield, in western Massachusetts, and she was one of the first women drivers in that area.

I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.