Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained.

All my life I've been hiding.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

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.

People say, "Well, you went on television, it enlarged your readership." It did not at all, not at all. I might as well tell you, I lost some readership, because the profound audience felt somehow bothered by my too easy manner.

All my father saw was what he wanted to see.