- Growth has its season. There are spring and summer, but there are also fall and winter. And then spring and summer again. As long as the roots are not severed, all is well and all be well.

It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself.

Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them.

A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.

It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.

All my father saw was what he wanted to see.

Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.