There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized
Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.
The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.
Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.
New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities - in its self-congratulation a kind of San Francisco of the East.
The world is divided up into two kinds of people - those who look at their body waste in the toilet bowl, and those who don't.