I walk down the street and people don't go, 'my God, there he is.' I lead as normal a life as you can lead in New York City.

Every minute you invest in kids you get back four times over.

To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it.

Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.

There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much that's missing.

I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They'll live to regret that.

Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch - decaying, bankrupt, and crime-ridden. But fun.