“ ‘Naked Lunch,’ ‘The Lost Weekend,’ and ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ were written at the Chelsea. So was a lot of Beat poetry… Andy Warhol made ‘Chelsea Girls’ there. The woman who shot him, Valerie Solanas, lived there while he was shooting. So did Viva… Rock flowered there, and punk decays.”

“I guess she was per­fect for him — they could beat each other up every night and nobody’d mind. They had real fights.”