Tiana

“What happens when we've long admired someone for their talent and then find out that despite the fact they excel at darts, they're socially conservative? How can we go on enjoying the way a person throws miniature arrows at some circular cork now that we diverge politically? And what if we find that people who make art can be terrible, perhaps even criminal? How do we get back the time we wasted enjoying their work before we knew that we wouldn't have enjoyed it if we'd known? Can we not get some kind of certification of sanctity before we allow ourselves to be moved? Because to be moved by something made by someone who has done something bad would mean that a bad person possesses the capacity to connect to us; that they haven't, somehow, forfeited their humanity.”
― Richard Ayoade, Ayoade on Top

“We talked about theatre, badminton, Yeats and the exhausting logistics of marital betrayal.”
― Richard Ayoade, The Unfinished Harauld Hughes

“And did any of the great Renaissance painters choose their own subjects? There must be more to life than crucifixion, but you wouldn't think it by flicking through their portfolios.”
― Richard Ayoade, The Unfinished Harauld Hughes

“Donna can’t believe that one person could own all of these clothes. My thoughts turn, as I’m sure do yours, to moth management. Sometimes people ask me what I do, and the correct answer is ‘almost nothing’, but if pressed, I might say that I’m a writer.”
― Richard Ayoade, Ayoade on Top