“You know of course that slowness is the only illumination I have ever had.”
— Peter Handke, Slow Homecoming

“When it comes to philosophy, quick solutions should be reduced to a minimum. Careful study comes to you in old age: this sort of slowness is disappearing everywhere. May unending slowness abound.”
— Gonçalo M. Tavares, A Man: Klaus Klump

“There is no point going anywhere else if we do not recognize ourselves in the eyes of the Other.”
— Jean-Claude Izzo, “I Am at Home Everywhere,” in Garlic, Mint & Sweet Basil: Essays on Marseilles, Mediterranean Cuisine, and Noir Fiction

“We’re method thinkers, we’ve decided. A bit like method actors. It’s a question of immersing ourselves in what we study. Of plunging into it. We have to become more Kierkegaardian than Kierkegaard, W. says. More Danish than the melancholy Dane!”
— Lars Iyer, Exodus