I didn't grow up in a small New England town like the one in 'The Sundial.' I was raised in an apartment building in Queens, not in a sprawling, slightly sinister mansion like the one where the Halloran family resides.

I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.

My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.

Another historical peculiarity of the place was the fact that its large mansions, those relics of another time, had not been reconstructed to serve as nursing homes for that vast population of comatose and the dying who were kept alive, unconscionably, through trailblazing medical invention.

I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.

I was raised in New Jersey - Long Branch.