"And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make cer..." — Jerzy Kosinski

A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.

As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.

Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.