Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't do anything between elections.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability — the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

It's so internalized, the way your mind works in relation to anything - it's a process, but then it isn't. It's working all the time.

Europe has never been a monolithic space, it contains a lot of people, a lot of languages and infinite supplies of history. I didn't need to do anything to showcase diversity. It is a condition of life and art in Europe, contained in every random sample.

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

I don't think that everyone should have a philosophical answer to any given question. There are things that need to be done.