Daniel Handler says of Muriel Spark's Not To Disturb: ”Servants gather outside a locked door to make sure a murder goes smoothly. My favorite episode of Downton Abbey that sadly does not exist.”
“Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over, mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.”
The Crime of Blackness: Dorothy B. Hughes’s Forgotten Noir - The New Yorker →
Dorothy Hughes 1963 noir about a black doctor who picks a white teenage female hitchhiker in a lonely desert road
“The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind - changing.”
Marina Abramovic
“A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.”
(via theparisreview)
Reading Alberto Moravia in Silvio Berlusconi’s Italy →
