"I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution"

"It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story"

"From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline"

"I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God"

"We played one warm-up gig at this bar that was kinda like that bar in 'The Blues Brothers' with the chicken wire. This place called The Brick House, in Housatonic. I really can't believe we're going to play for people in New York City. I'm terrified, but it's a small enough room. But it's really just supposed to be for the fun of it"

"New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent"

"And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park"

"I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City"

"I live not too far from it in New York City"

"I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City "

"I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City"