My parents couldn't bear to be there. In fact, people moved a lot in those days. Every time another baby was born, you looked for a bigger tenement. We were eight children in all. We moved a lot."
1 "The streets were terrible. I wasn't the physical type, the ball-playing type, and I never got chosen for the team. I was out under a tree, reading a book, probably. It was [the] Depression and it was bleak.... I was a skinny kid living in a ghetto-type neighborhood wanting the world to know I existed. I'd listen to the radio programs at night, Jack Benny, or famous singers.... I felt so unknown and so lost that I said, 'Someday I want them to know that I'm here. I exist.'
"... My heroes were in the library, in books. One of the greatest thrills was graduating from the childhood section to the adult section. Then you could go into the stacks behind the circulation desk.... They gave me the adult card at a very early age because I zipped through all those children's books. I went from Penrod and Sam right into Thomas Wolfe.... The book was The Web and the Rock.
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