After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half. Harry Mathews Read Quote
And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn’t. Harry Mathews Read Quote
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really – perhaps because I’m good at languages – of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language. Harry Mathews Read Quote
I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old. Harry Mathews Read Quote
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am. Harry Mathews Read Quote
I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing. Harry Mathews Read Quote
I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another. Harry Mathews Read Quote
I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better. Harry Mathews Read Quote
