And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.

What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.

I think situations are more important than plot and character.

And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.

You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.

My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.

I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.