It's A Big Deal For Me To

Perhaps The Longest Journey Is The Journey Within.

New York Was The Only City I Knew In The World Where You Could Be Desperately Lonely At Nine In The Morning, Crossing The Street For A Bagel At Gristede's, And Find That Seven Hours Later You Were Drinking Irish Coffee At P.j. Clarke's With All The Friends You Had Inherited Along The Way.

I'm Very Aware, But I'm Very Naïve. When You Are Really Naïve And Expecting Safety And Expecting The Best, You Don't Feel You're Taking Risks. You Can Get Smacked A Little, But Usually It Works Out Pretty Well. I Would Say That, As Much As You Can Instill Your Open-minded Naivety, If You're Basically Open Minded, Then You Can Do Damn Near Anything.

Sometimes I Feel An Impingement Of Something I Went Through In Another Lifetime. But I Like To Concentrate On The Absolute Present. That's Why I Love My Animals. They Live In The Present.

When A Child Comes In, I Believe That It's A 'multipersonhood,' And It Knows It, Its Consciousness Knows It, And It Has A Nuclei In The Center Of Its Consciousness That Is The Repository Of All Experience And All Knowledge. And When You Look In The Eyes Of Your Baby And You Feel This Sense That They Are An Old Soul, I Believe Indeed They Are.