It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.

The List is Life.

And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

Though, as he was torn into a pink upper air, she was a good craft to ride in, for her belly was firm and her breasts enabled a flying man good hold and emotions of heady safety. . . . Steering her peasant tits he bounded off stars.

So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.

And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.