“If the world cannot be made beautiful, it can at least be destroyed.”
– Len Gutkin, Dandyism: Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present (2020)

“I’d mispronounce ‘gnocchi’ and she’d avoid saying it all evening so as not to embarrass me. I would meet her eye and think: in this way I could strip you of every word you know. I’d take them like truffles and you’d say, ‘Help yourself,’ and then I’d take those too and you’d be speechless.”
– Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times (2020)