My Idea Was To Go To Vienna

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.

Translation Is The Paradigm, The Exemplar Of All Writing.... It Is Translation That Demonstrates Most Vividly The Yearning For Transformation That Underlies Every Act Involving Speech, That Supremely Human Gift.

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.

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

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.