My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.

I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.

Life was an impenetrable mystery cloaked in babble.

To be human is to be in a story.

My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.

In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.

Life is all getting used to what you're not used to.