Profanity

"I can't keep my temper in New York. The cars and carriages always come along and get in the way just as I want to cross a street, and if there is any thing that can make a man soar into flights of sublimity in the  matter of profanity, it is that."
Mark Twain, The Quotable Mark Twain

Reaching Toward the Sky

Fifth and Park Avenue buildings

"New York was magical to me, and it still is. Just walking down Fifth Avenue in the heat of the summer makes my heart race with excitement. It is empowering to look up at the skyscrapers, watching them defy gravity and reaching—like all the dreamers in this city—toward the sky."
Fredrick Eklund, The Sell

Meditation

Real estate listings on Broadway

"Meditation for most New Yorkers is thinking about their next apartment, the bigger one."
William L. Hamilton, The New York Times