The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.
“When I feel like I'm not doing what I am supposed to as a mother, I will torture myself. I don't know how to deal with it. I find some consolation in the fact that all mommies feel it. If there was a way to cure mommy guilt, I would bottle it and be a bazillionaire.”
“Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.”