Inner Self

Broadway

"To know New York is to walk New York, and to walk New York is to know something greater, something deeper about your inner self."
Peter Ferry, Masculinity in Contemporary New York Fiction

Contradiction

"This is my town, it's my place. I love it and hate it; I want to leave and I want to stay.... The frenzy of the place at times, the poverty of the place, the ambitiousness of the place, the shallowness of the place and yet everything I say about it can be contradicted."
Paul Auster, quoted in  Masculinity in Contemporary New York Fiction

Blood in the Veins

"New York is a living organism; the people who walk the city streets under the sprawling skeleton of endless scaffolding are the blood in its veins."
Peter Ferry, Masculinity in Contemporary New York Fiction