And I remember that it was at such a moment that I decided quite quietly: "I will set this right. When I grow up, I will bring her back her glittering world" (pg. 14.)

"I didn't know that it was possible to talk things over with people and not lose everything in the process. I thought the minute you confided anything it would disappear. This was definitely true of my mother. I learned very young to conceal my innermost thoughts from her" (pg. 17.)

" We decided, 'Right, this is our mission," and at once began to build the walls of our New Jerusalem- somewhat along the lines of the defenses of Paris in Gargantua and Pantagruel. Free love, psychedelic drugs, fashion, Zen, Nietzsche, Tribal trinkets, customized Existentialism, hedonism and rock 'n' rock" (pg. 19.)

"As Tears Go By was a marketable portrait of me and as such is an extremely ingenious...