"When I catch a raccoon," he says, "ninety-five percent of the time, it looks like a teenager that's been busted for smoking pot: just kind of aware of what they've done and accepting the consequences."
If you spend enough nights on the floor listening to people order martinis, explain natural wine to dates, or negotiate status through reservation choices, you start to realize restaurants are basically focus groups for contemporary aspiration.
He could tell she knew he was watching, for there was an uneasiness to her stride and to how she gripped her handbag until the taxi arrived.
1mo ago
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
1mo ago
It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that a man gets to know anything about them.
1mo ago
The mind is a collection of surfaces, and we must learn to read the signs written upon them—to distinguish between the scratches of accident and the marks of intention.
We see, but we do not see: we use our eyes, but our gaze is glancing, frivolously considering its object. We see the signs, but not their meanings. We are not blinded, but we have blinders.
At four feet eight, she is small for her age, but manages to occupy space laterally. She moves with a noodle elasticity, and is prone to breaking into dance moves while going about her business: a full-body wave from wrist to wrist, an entire sequence from a Katseye music video.
The main thing I thought about was that the airport was like a cathedral of anxiety. When you land, you're so happy to be alive. And then you go into high anxiety over whether or not your luggage is in the room.
3mo ago
The poet only asks to get his head into the world, but the world always strikes back and prevents him from seeing anything.
The main thing I thought about was that the airport was like a cathedral of anxiety. When you land, you're so happy to be alive. And then you go into high anxiety over whether or not your luggage is in the room. You're always in that kind of state.
We are not who we say we are. We are how we move through the world. This is something I notice more and more when reporting. The truth usually lies in the small, in-between, seemingly ordinary moments.
4mo ago
The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody sees.
5mo ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
