The main problem of living in the city that never sleeps that neither did I.

I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we're friendly. So there.

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.

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.