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I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.

At a certain point, the graduate school thing didn't work out, and that meant I was liberated.

I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.

I dropped out of high school three days into my senior year because I hated it because New York City public school is a mess. I certainly wasn't one for sitting in a classroom. Then I went off to college to North Carolina School of the Arts, then quit that after two years.

You feel the pressure of going to university because you need a back-up plan, which is why I enrolled.

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

I'd been going to college for nine years, and before I completed my dissertation, I quit.

I did regret not graduating high school, but I made a point of going back and getting my GED later. It was important for my kids.

I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months.

I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.