sound
I like turning on two radios at the same time and listening to them. I like hearing things incorrectly. I think that’s how I get a lot of ideas is by mishearing something.
Interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air, NPR, originally aired May 21, 2002.
On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk and you’re lucky if the sound of a police car doesn’t rip the envelope twice a night.
“Tom Stoppard, The Art of Theater No. 7,” in The Paris Review, Winter 1988, No. 109.
I couldn’t be happier than I am in this apartment, with the sounds from Sixth Avenue constantly surprising me, never once repeating themselves.
“Searching for Silence,” by Alex Ross, The New Yorker, October 4, 2010, 52–61.