"I never had an ambition to be a painter, to be a writer. I had a yearning. It was a yearning for life, and I equated life with the life of an artist, a life of freedom, generosity, a life with other people who had the same interests in making beautiful things together."
"Part of my yearning was to leave the Bronx, where I lived, to come out of that dreary little world where everything shut down by nine o'clock and where there were no bookstores. At 15, I dropped out of high school. My dream was to save enough money to live in Paris."
"The experience gave me a taste of another life. I had told Resko: When I try to write, I get anxious. I want to leave, to go down to the street for a cigarette. He said to me: I guess you haven't realized yet, the adventure isn't outside in the street. The adventure is at your desk. That's the place you discover new things."
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