Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy.... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe.


Endangered Pleasures: In Defense of Naps, Bacon, Martinis, Profanity, and Other Indulgences (1995)

Barbara Holland Quotes

Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy.... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped...

Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy.... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped...

Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy.... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped...

Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy.... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped...