“New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.”

“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water'.”

“Start spreading the news, I'm leaving today. I want to be a part of it. New York... New York..." New York, New York - Fred Ebb/John Kander”

“I imagine runningto the creek and diving in headfirst, the creek so shallow that my hands scrape against the rocks, and my bodyslides into the cold water, the shock of the cold giving way to numbness, and I would stay there, float down withthat water first to the Cahaba River, then to the Alabama River, then to Mobile Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.”

“The flow of the river is ceaseless; and its water is never the same.The foam that floats in the poolsNow gathering, now vanishingNever lasts long. So it is with manand all his dwelling places on this earth.”

“… the river sliding along its banks, darker now than the sky descending a last time to scatter its diamonds into these black waters that contain the day that passed, the night to come. — Excerpt from the poem “The Mercy”