“I'm always working, like everyone I know, to seem more amazing and well-rounded and interesting than I actually am, or could ever be. The weird part is: no one's every actually said that to any of us. It's more like… — Richard Kramer Copy Share Image
“It seems some people, like George, are just like that, lucky people with stories just circling them like birds, ready to float down for… — Richard Kramer Copy Share
“If anyone were ever to ask George why he doesn't fear the things most people do, he would see, perhaps, that yes; it has… — Richard Kramer Copy Share
“There's a bench, worn smooth by decades of widows and nannies; I sit, and wonder if he will, if he'll remember it was ours… — Richard Kramer Copy Share
“Ah. We are men, of an age, in a city that both is much like New York and is New York, so this question… — Richard Kramer Copy Share
“I'm always working, like everyone I know, to seem more amazing and well-rounded and interesting than I actually am, or could ever be. The… — Richard Kramer Copy Share
“They each look down now, although not yet at each other. Cabs, whistles, bullets; buses, screams, small sobs; people singing, sighing, pleading with dogs… — Richard Kramer Copy Share
“This is us, then, at night. Two men, slowly crumbling, minding our business in the bed we flip four times a year to extend… — Richard Kramer Copy Share
“I didn't plan it; in a way, it seems, it planned me. I won, and I was making my acceptance speech, and then the… — Richard Kramer Copy Share
“Because how do you tell a woman in a kitchen the tale of her being and self, when she hates the Internet because it… — Richard Kramer Copy Share
“How many words are spoken in New York every day, just in Manhattan alone, say? And how many are really heard? Seventeen, maybe. On… — Richard Kramer Copy Share
“Me and Theo feel, personally--this is the kind of stuff we talk about--that lying is most interesting as an action when you don't actually… — Richard Kramer Copy Share
