There may be almost nine million people living here, but New York is a city of lonely people full of regrets. It’s my job to make their final moments a little less lonesome.
“Moving from one room to the next I inhaled in passing that incense of an old library which is worth all the perfumes of the world.”
― Wind, Sand and Stars
― Wind, Sand and Stars
“We weren’t in search of answers. These weren’t debates to be won: certainty was boring. We were in search of patterns that would bring the world into focus. We craved new contexts, initiating routines that might eventually feel second nature.”
― Stay True: A Memoir
― Stay True: A Memoir
“Suburbs are about the leisurely conquest of space, an alternative to the uncomfortable density of the city. They seem to run free from history itself, offering a sense that nothing was there before. But the illusion of tranquility frays at the edges: the neurosis required to maintain so neatly manicured a lawn, the pristine sidewalks that nobody walks on, the holy wars fought to keep one municipality from oozing into the next. Suburbs suggest stability and conformity, yet they are rarely beholden to tradition. Rather, they are slates that can be wiped clean to accommodate new aspirations.”
― Stay True: A Memoir
― Stay True: A Memoir
“A belief in genius is a large part of what plagues us, and I have found that people widely praised for the power of their intellect are as likely to illuminate as they are to confound. “Genius” may or may not help a writer whose job is, above all else, to clarify.”
― The Message
― The Message
“Happy are the lands of the North whose seasons are poets, the summer composing a legend of snow, the winter a tale of sun. Sad the tropics, where in the sweating-room nothing changes very much.”
― Wind, Sand And Stars
― Wind, Sand And Stars
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