I Think Situations Are More

Write About The Things That Attract You. Choose Your Subjects The Way You Used To Choose Your Toys: Out Of Desire.

And Then, When I Left Princeton In The Middle Of My Sophomore Year, I Went Into The Navy.

What I Said About John Was That He Liberated Me From My Anxieties About Writing In A Correct, Acceptable Way.

I Graduated In 1952 And Went To Europe, With Niki And Our First Child Laura, Who Was Then A Year Old.

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.