“A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe.”
“ 'You call this a catastrophe, but take it from me, the line between a catastrophe and a miracle is a fine one.' ”
“Empire as located its existence not in the smooth recurrent spinning time of the cycle of the seasons but in the jagged time of rise and fall, of beginning and end, of catastrophe.”
“...until the fear of catastrophe amends, or catastrophe itself destroys...”
“Probably most catastrophes end this way without an ending, the dead not even knowing how they died...,those who loved them forever questioning "this unnecessary death," and the rest of us tiring of this inconsolable catastrophe and turning to the next one.”