- “As a writer I value the concept of boredom because it’s very useful in having ideas and letting your brain explore. Now I have to actively choose when to be bored.” Chose boredom.
- “‘Well,’ Birkin says, in heavily accented French, ‘did you learn anything about me from seeing ing bag?’ Then a grin: ‘Even if we Birkin reveal everything, we don’t show much.'” Found by Russell.
- “I realized that I really didn’t want to read another experimental European novel with a tormented narrator reflecting on language, daddy issues, the trauma of WWII, ‘the real,’ presence and absence in the archives, and lists of the dead.” // Same.
- The rhetoric of camera angles is nuts: laughable that they’re so manipulative and tricky, but also insightful because they’re so true and effective.
- “No boring buffets here!”