And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didnt.

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.

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.

And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didnt.

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

I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.

My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.