People, even children, aren't really afraid of change. They're afraid of not being prepared for change.

I was always busy doing something, being an only child.

I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I picked up.

Being born in '31 was during the Depression and in my earlier youth World War II took place - so it was not the best of times, and yet I don't recall ever having experiences that were a burden.

Even today, the bigger the city, the better. That's why I live in New York.

In a social studies class I did a paper on the history of Attica, which ended up being a little book that I created.

We've got a nation of people who have one eye looking out for the next speed camera, another looking for a speed limit sign and another looking at the speedometer - which is a bit of a shame, when you only have two eyes.