I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .

[NEW YORK (CNN) -- In his monologue] Swimming to Cambodia, ... Thailand, the Pure Land.

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.

I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.

What's so fascinating about New Yorkers is that each person has a whole lexicon of personal logic in the way that they decipher and do what has to be done to enjoy, stay alive, take pleasure in this place.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!