Norma and I had our squabbles, certainly, but never any scenes of rage like those on television with actors and actresses screaming at one another. It was give and take in our house. Two of my rules did cause a certain amount of continuing friction—my rule against smoking at the table and my rule against record-playing after 9 p.m., by which time I had settled in for a night of reading—but I didn’t see how I could compromise in either of those areas.
