There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships.' Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand. This is a lifelong relationship, and after 12 years she hasn't gotten rid of me yet. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I do believe that when you know better, you do better. You know what was wrong about the last relationship, and hopefully you will do better the next time. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
You know, we're each the hero of our own story and we perceive what's going on around us, and especially in a relationship, from the kind of viewpoint of, 'Well, this is my story, and I'm the hero of that, and I justify what I do around it.' Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>