Friday, September 30, 2016

Carnivorous Plant



"New York has swallowed me up like a carnivorous plant swallowing a fly, I have been living a breathless life for fifty days now, here life consists of a series of appointments made a week or a fortnight in advance: lunch, cocktail party, dinner, evening party, these make up the various stages of the day which allow you constantly to meet new people, to make arrangements for other lunches, other dinners, other parties and so on ad infinitum."
Italo Calvino, The Letters of Italo Calvino

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Pretending

NYC ferry


"In a city with so many people, a New Yorker would always pretend not to see you when you didn't want to be seen."
Emma Straub, Modern Lovers

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Spidey Sense

S shuttle

"If you grow up in New York City and you're paying attention, you have a better spidey sense than anyone else. It prepares you well for the rest of the world. You learn to listen to the hair on the back of your neck."
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Variety