“The city of New York, and Manhattan in particular, is certainly one huge melting pot of human desires, and as one can easily imagine that it is an extremely practical location, it seems just natural to me that an artist of a nervous and sensitive nature sooner or later feels like plotting an escape.

For myself, however, who is always just a traveller, Manhattan has that throbbing something that attracts and spellbinds people — although it might of course be different if I wasn't only visiting. New York is filled with a vague scent of mescaline, while the smell of Andy Warhol is billowing out of every street.”