47 Quotes by Harry Mathews

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

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

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

Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.

My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.

My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.

When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city.

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.

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