New York is dead. It's too expensive.

I never drove a car in my life. Given my drinking habits in those days, I would have been dead a long time ago - stumbling out of a bar at 4 a.m. and getting into a car.

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.

I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about.

When I came to New York, it was cheap!

I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.