Jon Birondo

“These days, it’s easy to feel that we’ve fallen out of connection with one another and with the earth and with reason and with love. I mean: we have. But to read, to write, is to say that we still believe in, at least, the possibility of connection.”
― George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

“don’t know what my life is about and don’t examine it. My life will define itself as I live it. The movies will define themselves as I make them.”
― Sidney Lumet, Making Movies

“For the ruling class, in general, politics is a question of aesthetics: a way of seeing themselves, of seeing the world, of constructing a personality. For us it was life or death.”
― Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

“The things we remember most clearly are always those that bring us shame.”
― Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence