[Private]
[There's something different about how he says this, his rate of speech is a bit slower and less animated, and he thought a while before responding.] My mother is a professor of 15th and 16th century literature. She's brilliant, and she read to me all the time. I still write to her every day.
But she is also a paranoid schizophrenic, to the point that she was unable to care for herself. After my father left us, it fell to me to take care of her. When I turned 18, I had her committed. She's still there to this day.