“The worst have scraped out the mantle of the best and wear it around as something real. It takes no genius to see that. But I moved to San Francisco because the masquerade of kindly gestures is, at least, kind.… — Jay Caspian Kang Copy Share Image
“Love and cities are always inextricably entwined. There's no restaurant or corner store or run-down dive in any city that doesn't double as a… — Jay Caspian Kang Copy Share Image
“The worst have scraped out the mantle of the best and wear it around as something real. It takes no genius to see that.… — Jay Caspian Kang Copy Share Image
“One day when we feel less embarrassed about it all, the next generation's great poet will write an elegy for the despair you feel… — Jay Caspian Kang Copy Share Image
“I don't think I'll ever forget it. Me, standing there, humiliated, worried vaguely about how the unflattering fabric of my bathing suit was clinging… — Jay Caspian Kang Copy Share Image
