T.S. Eliot, pretending he’s not plagiarising Seneca…

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”

I want one of these in the studio…

…rooms painted in such a way that, when you’re in exactly the right spot, everything makes sense…like that lightbulb moment when you finally solve an anagram, or stumble onto the right chord – or the intriguingly wrong one…

Adam Phillips on ‘writing’;

“…Are writers people who, because they cannot bear the world, make it their own, in words; or are they people who so cherish the world that they want to show us the very different things it contains? Are they megalomaniacs or midwives?…”