A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.

I love a good play, but they're too hard to find.

It's really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially - to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of appreciation of them is always shifting and changing over the years.

I shake my head and the tiny acrobats fall like spangles, like the cool rain on another planet, down to the inside of my feet.

Nothing lasts in New York. Everything's always changing in really obvious ways.

Things always change, and New York teaches you that.