Why do it, just because I can? That's kind of crazy.
Because every time someone finds a new animal, or a new amazing thing on earth, it means we haven't broken everything yet.
Writing that gets rewritten as the earth moves. If you look at the sky that way, it's this massive shifting poem, or maybe a letter, first written by one author, and then, when the earth moves, annotated by another. So I stare and stare until, one day, I can read it.
The main problem of living in the city that never sleeps that neither did I.
I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me.
My first tattoo is a full-on Sailor Jerry situation on my hip - it's a swallow with big spread wings. When I got it I was 20 on St. Mark's Place in New York; I just walked in in a frenzy. It's still there 17 years later and it's not a terrible thing to look at.
Brooke Berman's voice is utterly distinct, and her book, detailing her nomadic artist's journey toward both a successful playwriting career and a home of her own, through 20 years of cramped sublets, high-rise palaces, writer's colonies, and boyfriend's vans, is a hilarious, hopeful, and penetrating must-read.
The spiritual uplift, the goodwill, cheerfulness and optimism that accompanies every expedition to the outdoors is the peculiar spirit that our people need in times of suspicion and doubt. . . No other organized joy has values comparable to the outdoor experience.
Travel teaches toleration.
A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.
Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.