Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit

“It is said that Negronis are like breasts: ‘One is not enough, two is perfect, and three is just too many.’ Today I am tempted to see what happens if I drink four.”

“I’m getting closer to the coast and realize how much I hate arriving at a destination. Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.”

“In Shubert Alley that night, I had unwittingly reached the threshold of an entire landscape of alleys that would lead to a world of theaters, each a house packed with strangers both generous and mean, shabby and grand. It was to be a life full of the transitory moments, double-edged with ecstasy and loss, that I had already come to think of as the theater.”

“If I heard that song I wouldn’t get married for anything in the whole world.”

“In naïve, or pure, Camp, the essential element is seriousness, a seriousness that fails. Of course, not all seriousness that fails can be redeemed as Camp. Only that which has the proper mixture of the exaggerated, the fantastic, the passionate, and the naïve.”

“If you keep a place clean, people will respect it; if you let it get dirty, they’ll make it worse…Just make the park beautiful and you’ll appeal to the best side of people. They all have it; all you have to do is bring it out.”

“She followed in the footsteps of our other Housewives and did a song next, naturally. The more songs the better, as far as I’m concerned. It’s theater of the absurd.”

“There are only two times in this world when I am happy and selfless and pure,” he said. “One is when I jack off on paper and the other when I empty all the fretfulness of desire on a young male body.”