My Speed

"Sky" mosaic by Yoko Ono

"New York is at my speed. It is a 24-hours-a-day city, it's going on around you all the time, so much that you almost stop noticing it. But it's all there if you want it."
John Lennon, The Beatles: Off The Record 2

Vital Appendage

"From above, Manhattan is just a lonely arm, squirting and bending from the big body of Brooklyn. It is not until you are inside it that you see it is the vital appendage, the hand that squeezes at the rest of the world, the muscle where everything that's anything is made."
Molly Prentiss, Tuesday Nights in 1980

Crazy

East Village

"Plenty of crazy people in New York. There are so many crazy people here, I think it's like one out of every one person is completely out of their mind."
Louis C.K., Comedy Central