Gregory Corso

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.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets.

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

Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man.

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.

My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.

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.

I just trust people and they sense everything's gonna be alright.