He's an amazing man … When he was 12, one of our schoolmasters said: "My boy, you are a literary genius. My strong suggestion is to go to America. They will appreciate you there." Over the years I've read what he's written that never got published, and I always said it still holds. He is a literary genius. Also the most nonjudgmental decent guy. He forgives.


On his brother Frank - The New York Times interview (1998)


He's an amazing man … When he was 12, one of our schoolmasters said: My boy, you are a literary genius. My strong suggestion is to go to America....

He's an amazing man … When he was 12, one of our schoolmasters said: My boy, you are a literary genius. My strong suggestion is to go to America....

He's an amazing man … When he was 12, one of our schoolmasters said: My boy, you are a literary genius. My strong suggestion is to go to America....

He's an amazing man … When he was 12, one of our schoolmasters said: My boy, you are a literary genius. My strong suggestion is to go to America....