I often feel more disgust than pride about this kind of success. So there's no regret whatsoever.

My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have some kind of a desire. It's a surviving game, people trying to survive on many different levels.

I never saw [Allen Ginsberg] as some kind of crazy figure.

I can still wake up the next day and feel that there's something that needs to be done, which always amuses me.

The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.

Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.

Everyone of us is a potential convict.