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"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."

"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."

"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."

"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."
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"Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man."


"The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool - the street scene of an old aristocratic kind of man."


"The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence."


"Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed."


"I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old."


"My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her."


"I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast."


"I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930."
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