I Left Princeton, But I Graduated Harvard,

And I Finished College Because I Thought How Much It Would Upset My Parents If I Didnt.

You Make Something. You Give Up Expressing And Start Inventing.

I Graduated In 1952 And Went To Europe, With Niki And Our First Child Laura, Who Was Then A Year Old.

What I Said About John Was That He Liberated Me From My Anxieties About Writing In A Correct, Acceptable Way.

It’s True, I Had An Extremely Delicious Life, But That Was My Life At Home, And Perhaps Because I Was Only A Child, Or For Whatever Reasons, I Found The Company Of Others, Especially Other Boys, Quite Terrifying And Upsetting.