“All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.” - Grace Paley

For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure...

You can never start life afresh, because you're hopelessly stuck in this life; there's no breaking through to another one in which...

“Yes, I think we must be entirely open to the world.  We should live fully in it and ask a lot of questions and try to maintain an open...

Loose ends can never be properly tied, one is always producing new ones. Time, like the sea, unties all knots. Judgements on people are...

"I live an exciting life unseen." Zora Neale Hurston

Another 20th century thinker who is concerned for the loss of experience in modern life is Hannah Arendt. Arendt thinks modern life,...

“For some people, being dead is only a relative condition; they wreak more than the living do.” Hilary Mantel, ”The princess myth: Hilary...

“I think we are well-advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not....

Entrepreneur and venture capitalist Paul Graham on the importance of being at least a little bit contrarian: "Let's start with a test: Do...

“I’m always interested in the intersection between cooking and grief…” Olivia Potts, The TakeAway, Food, Drink and Recipes

``We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the...

Publishing a poem is for many a kind of glory, even as it likely won’t be read by more than 10 people, and will most probably not be...

Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. Anais Nin

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.    Maya Angelou

About 99% of the time, the right time is right now. No one is as impressed with your possessions as you are. Don’t ever work for someone...

A Partial Register of the 927 (or was in 928?) Eternal Truths. This is it ! There are no hidden meanings. You can’t get from there to...

"From bebop to doo-wop to hip-hop to TikTok–you gotta go to know.  So that’s what I’m doin’!” ​    Composer and producer Quincy Jones,...

​Writer Jeanette Winterson on second chances: "I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering,...

​I have come to consider most of what passes for “self help” literature today as obscene because it ignores the complexities of life,...