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
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. Harry Mathews
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. Harry Mathews
What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way. Harry Mathews
I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old. Harry Mathews
And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy. Harry Mathews
Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. Harry Mathews
It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the reader's opportunities to follow it at every step. Harry Mathews
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
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
My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding. Harry Mathews
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am. Harry Mathews
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. Harry Mathews
And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't. Harry Mathews
I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you I don't believe in the supernatural, I believe in the supernormal. Richard Matheson
I had to write about realistic circumstances. That's the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field. Richard Matheson