I was always a tomboy as a kid. I always had boyfriends. I was just a regular girl growing up in the late '50s and early '60s, but I was never really attracted to what the girls were attracted to: makeup, my appearance, homemaking.

New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city.

Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.

Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.

In the '50s you had to wear pink ribbons if you were a girl, and you were supposed to become a hairdresser or a secretary. I couldn't stomach it. Later on, when I fell in love with my husband and had children, that's when my mother's earthiness or sense of femaleness kicked in.

There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.