THE INEXHAUSTIBLE NEED NOT EXHAUST US

"The city tells me that mastery is beyond my grasp, that the grandest gift of the streets in mystery. New York promises that, in a place where ambition is the treasured watchword, we can more fully find ourselves in each other, and learn to be enchanted by the things revealed and the awareness that much is held back, awaiting our gentle curiosity. 'And what happens next,' to borrow the wisdom of Seamus Heaney, 'is a music that you never would have known to listen for.' This inexhaustible city need not exhaust us—we can walk into wonder."

— Garnette Cadogan, Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas