“If I have all the tears that are shed on Broadway by guys in love, I will have enough salt water to start an opposition ocean to the Atlantic and Pacific, with enough left over run the Great Salt Lake out of business.”
–Damon Runyon, as quoted in a recent New Yorker article.

I don’t always have a high opinion of Adam Gopnik as a writer, but I will concede that he’s always a helluva quoter.

(Posted simultaneously to “Jelly-Town!”)