And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary

Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965.

I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.

I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

It is impossible to have progress without conscience