Oasis

"There is beauty in New York, but it is isolated and artificial and carefully nurtured. Beauty in New York is a momentary oasis in a vast desert of ugliness."
Webb Chiles, A Single Wave

New York Mentality

"You can find anything in New York. The city never sleeps. Or so they say. I know people who wouldn't live anywhere else. Yet it requires a very peculiar mentality to do so, a mentality that demands limitations, to be constantly surrounded by millions of other people, never to have open horizons. To dream in New York, one must turn inward and shut doors to lock out the city."
Webb Chiles, A Single Wave