I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life.
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
I studied philosophy at Columbia, then dropped out to do drama at the Lee Strasberg Institute.
I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up.
From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew.
Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.
Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
By the time I had got to college, I had begun to read and had decided that most of what Christians believed could not be credible. So I became a philosophy major at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.
All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.