Like all enjoyable things, you see, it has unenjoyable parts to it.
The signore...wishes her to begin at the beginning.
There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed.
When he [Joe Lewis] was asked upon his retirement about his long career, Joe sweetly summed it up in just ten words. 'I did the best I could with what I had'.
I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.
Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have been a less frightened boy if Lindbergh hadn't been president or if I hadn't been the offspring of Jews.