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However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years.

I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude.

The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away one's worldly goods.

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to three years in federal prison because I could not religiously and conscientiously accept killing my fellow man.

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.

Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

That was my aspiration, so I was there in a seminary with just boys who were studying to be priests. Pretty rigorous schooling; we never got home, we stayed there all year.

When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.

I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.