"Not many people know what their parents sound like having sex. It was noisy." — Moon Unit Zappa

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.

My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store.