"My wife is lying in hospital now with pneumonia, kidney failure on Wednesday and can't even speak. But I know she can hear me. I visit her every day and talk in her ear."
"How did you meet?"
"I was sitting on the stool like I am now. It was 1960, I was 14, sitting on the stool in front of my house. And then this girl with the guts came along. Long legs, big ass, jeans so tight, I don't know how she could walk. She just came over and sat on my lap until the sun went down. We had a kid a few years later. I stayed with her. Those years weren't always great, but I stayed with her."
——"Know What You Want: The Story of a Stranger in New York"