"They always say, “If smoking did on the outside what it does on the inside everyone would quit.” I wonder if that is true for gentrification. If the human spirit was visible from the outside, if all our brokenness and sadness and pain was easily seen, could people be more empathetic? No, they’d just make everyone wear bags over their heads."

Nathan Monk, 2021, "All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge"