That winter two things happened which made me see that the world, the flesh, and the devil were going to be more powerful influences in my life after all than the chapel bell. First, I tasted champagne, second, the theatre."

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.

"Like Moses, I wasn't born. l was found."

Odd how the erotic appeal has swung away from legs; today a smart girl takes her legs for granted and gets herself a good sweater.

"Much has been written about the beauty, the stillness, the terror of the desert but Iittle about its flies."