If You Want To Be Your Own

What I Really Do Is Take Real Plums And Put Them In An Imaginary Cake.

... It Was Religion That Saved Me. Our Ugly Church And Parochial School Provided Me With My Only Aesthetic Outlet, In The Words Ofthe Mass And The Litanies And The Old Latin Hymns, In The Easter Lilies Around The Altar, Rosaries, Ornamented Prayer Books, Votive Lamps, Holy Cards Stamped In Gold And Decorated With Flower Wreaths And A Saint's Picture.

The Present Can Try To Bury The Past, An Operation That Is Most Atrocious When It Is Most Successful.

You Know What My Favourite Quotation Is?.. It's From Chaucer... Criseyde Says It, "i Am Myne Owene Woman, Wel At Ese."

A Society Person Who Is Enthusiastic About Modern Painting Or Truman Capote Is Already Half A Traitor To His Class. It Is Middle-class People Who, Quite Mistakenly, Imagine That A Lively Pursuit Of The Latest In Reading And Painting Will Advance Their Status In The World.