When you're in New York, people don't say, 'We're happy you came to New York.' In D.C., people thank you for coming here and bringing art here.

I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy.

If only I had grown up worshipping Julia Child. I was already grown up - thank you very much - when Julia Child's book was published. When I moved to New York in 1962, you had to own it.

People with brains went to New York, and people with faces came West.

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

I'm so happy to have done this, and now I can say I ran the New York City Marathon.