Stand up and why?
— Misheard Lily
Sus
Sexual ice-cream… ice-cream that looks hot.
— David Rosenthal
Horsy
— Jason
He was successively a milkman, a truckdriver, a bricklayer, a harvester, a dishwasher, a soldier in Puerto Rico during the war with Spain, a newspaperman, and a student of literature.
— Jorge Luis Borges, An Introduction to American Literature
When I close my eyes I see faces I haven’t drawn yet!
— Lily
Usually I watch animals until they walk away.
— Lily
Hi!
— Lily greeting her first trick-or-treaters
The ground will be moist for gravestones.
— Dad
And your shoes get so hot, you wish your tired feet were fireproof.
— Man singing on subway with backup beatboxer, “Under The Boardwalk”
Vote for me! I’m running cuz I’m not walking.
— Sidney
Beautiful right?
— Fairway employee on Lily and I staring at new outdoor register
Hey. What’s up?
— Old man from Gramercy Vintage Furniture
I want to see the rest of the U.S. and walk a lot.
— Lily
It seems like everyone could use a pile of gravel every once in a while.
— Paul
iPads are cool but i miss giving my orders to a real person. The waiter helping us (adrian) was warm, energetic and made me feel attended to and connected. It is really a pleasure to have a nice experience with a person in a space full of bright screens, long waits and rushed travelers. Thank you to adrian for making my meal so precisely what i needed.
— One of many positive reviews for Adrian at Caps Oasis
It revealed my bedrock sense of reality as fiction, a mythology specific to a particular time and place, in a way I wouldn’t forget.
— Peter Korn, Why We Make Things And Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman
He’s Phi Bet'
— Sidney after I grabbed a knife from the neighbor table and loudly halved a frozen peach in the Isle of Capris
To maintain the stories that constitute one’s understanding of oneself in the world is a constant struggle.
— Peter Korn, Why We Make Things And Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman
The craftsman is forced to come to terms with the physical properties of materials, the mechanical properties of tools, and the real capacity and limits of his own dexterity, discipline and imagination.
— Peter Korn, Why We Make Things And Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman