‘Dangerous pavements / But I face the ice this year with my father’s stick.’ Seamus Heaney
‘The photograph fulfilled my deep need to stop things from disappearing. It makes transient less painful. Sometimes I want a picture to ask why, and to not be too easily deciphered and decoded, because our lives are often like that.’ Dorothy Bohm
‘When you’re younger, you’re scared of dying. As you get older, it seems rather fun.’ Barbara Hulanicki
He felt like a raisin on top of a cake, extraneous.
The Bee Gees song ‘Staying Alive’, with its 103 BPM tempo, was widely used as a guide for administering CPR.
The courage to fail is the same courage you need to succeed, so welcome failure. If you’re not failing, you’re not trying, so keep failing.
People hate anything well made, it gives them a guilty conscience.
‘The sun came up like a yellow rose and fell like a sweating orange.’ Alistair Cooke
A million seconds is less than 12 days, while 1 billion seconds is nearly 32 years.
He would sniff like a gusting wind and brush away the tear with the back of his hand the size of a cod.
