My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.

I come from a family that has a long history in the legal community of New York and New York state.

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things.

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

New York... where people come for their Ph.D. in corruption.