Fauxhemian-isms

“The sadness is my old paint under the new, the sadness is the house fire, or the broken shoulder: I’d still be me without it but I’d be so boring.”

If my wedding pictures don't include wildfire in some way, then I've lost.

"Hipsters want rubble with guarantee of renewal. They want to move into a memory they have already made."

The city's fiscal crisis is an opportunity to harness the region's economic promise.

"However, there’s an iron law of 21st-century life: when something is desirable, the “one per cent” grabs it. The great cities are becoming elite citadels. This is terrifying for everyone else."

"Then comes the motherfuckin’ Christopher Columbus Syndrome. You can’t discover this! We been here."

"A nice neighborhood should be not a luxury but an urban right."