Jeff Scott

“When other people are happy, I don't have to worry about them. There is room for my happiness.”
― Ling Ma, Severance

“All the lights were off, and I just lay there, trying to pass the hours before I had to get up and go to work, which was impossible when the night was so loud. My neighbor’s electric air conditioner, the bass pumping from other people’s cars. They were all converging together to say one thing: You are alone. You are alone. You are alone. You are truly and really alone.”
― Ling Ma, Severance

“We realize that all these acts of self-reinvention and self-determination will nonetheless be trampled by the greedy and the powerful, then ground up in the tank treads of history.”
― Matt Zoller Seitz, The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel

“have always lived in the myth of New York more than in its reality. It is what enabled me to live there for so long, loving the idea of something more than the thing itself.”
― Ling Ma, Severance