I knew that I… I loved the theatre and I had been in plays from time to time and… and also had helped rewrite a… a musical at one point and… so I thought, okay, I… I will… I'd like to write plays. So, this is the time when the University of Iowa was just becoming the place where writers went and I had seen a big coverage of this and of Paul Engle — the man who ran it — in Life magazine I think. I had wanted… I thought that's what I'll do, I'll go there and I'll study playwriting. You couldn't get in; everybody was trying to get in. Fortunately or unfortunately — no fortunately, very fortunately — my mother was friends with a lady on the board of… of directors; they had grown up together and she… and, again, my interest in the arts may have reflected a kind of warfare between my mother and father. She could get me in, and did. Well I went… so I was registered mainly for the theatre. I… I wasn't acting though; I… I was just studying playwriting and I had an absolutely dreadful teacher. She had been… she had kept Tennessee Williams alive while he was there, we thought there was a love affair between them, we didn't know he was gay.