Steven [sebring] Was Documenting Me As A

I Was A Lower Middle-class Kid. My Family Had No Money. There Was No Room In Our Small House Where There Were Already Four Kids, Including Myself, Living.

For I Desired, As Youth Does, To Be Taken By The Hand And Hurled Into The World.

I Don't Think Public Life In And Of Itself Can Destroy You. I Think It's The Way People React To It, And Some People Are More Sturdy Than Others... I Don't Think Any One Faction Can Be Blamed For A Person's Self Destruction - A Certain Amount Of That Has To Be Innate.

I Knew If I Lived Long Enough I Would Be Poet Laureate Of Something.

Even As A Child, I Knew What I Didn't Want. I Didn't Want To Wear Red Lipstick.