To me bathtubs are the epitome of luxury. Either you have no money to own one or you have no time to use one.

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath.I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near onto an hour, and I felt myself growing pure again. I don't believe in baptism or the waters of Jordan or anything like that, but I guess I feel about a hot bath the way those religious people feel about holy water.