Jon Lovett

Republicans are fucking weird. I love this direction. If there's one thing this country hates, it's weird shit. We like Taylor Swift, generic sports bars, wooden signs in the kitchen that say EAT, mid-century modern Pinterest boards, and weddings that look like all the other weddings. One day, we'll break out of that. But for now, Republicans are fucking weird.

—on the direction of Kamala Harris's campaign, one week after she became the de facto nominee for president. Podcast "What A Weekday," July 30, 2024. 

Glynnis MacNicol

I do think that enjoyment is built into the French system as a right. Whereas in America it has to be earned. And not just earned financially, but earned through labor, through hard work. There's this sense in America you must do something to deserve pleasure, as opposed to you deserve it because you live on planet earth.

https://bonjour.lindseytramuta.com/p/paris-as-a-playground-of-pleasure

Glynnis MacNicol

I couldn't shake the feeling that the years ahead, if they were to be lived in a way that didn't leave me feeling like I was standing in a corner watching the action but never living it, would require me to transform into a person I could not yet recognize and was not totally convinced even existed.

No One Tells You This (2018)