Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.
Harry MathewsWhat I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.
Harry MathewsI graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.
Harry MathewsAnd I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didnt.
Harry Mathews