I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with but you can't go...
In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week....
Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to...
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from...
We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in...
Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in...
Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play it was not reassuring to...
I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him too but I...
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
