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mine is that, on the one hand, I've never felt that I belong anywhere, but, on the other hand, I never find anybody very queer because for me all people are different from one another. I don't have a base for comparison.

I was not brought up in Peoria. If you're brought up in one town, you tend to think that the mores of that town are the mores, and all other mores are strange, weird, impossible, disgusting, what-have-you. I was brought up to live with a whole series of different mores, if you use the word in that sense, and it obviously had considerable impact on what kind of a person I became. My most important educational factor was probably living in all these different places and always having to adjust to a new set of circumstances, a new language, new people, new friends, new educational methods, new everything. When I think back, I have to say to myself, well, it's probably the best education you could've had if you could survive it. For a lot of kids, it would be emotionally very destabilizing, probably, to move that much, but somehow my sister and I just sort of took to it and didn't--

There was stability in that family unit of your mother, your sister, and you?

Oh, yes, very. You know, my sister and I would fight until I got strong enough so that she thought she couldn't lick me anymore, then we stopped fighting. It was a very little menage, but a very strong one.