Caitlin McCay

“Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or decline from it. Optimism is similarly confident about what will happen. Both are grounds for not acting. Hope can be the knowledge that reality doesn't necessarily match our plans.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

“Saying that everything is fine or that it will never get any better are ways of going nowhere or of making it impossible to go anywhere. Either approach implies that there is no road out or that, if there is, you don't need to or can't go down it.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

“...great products are a triumph of taste and taste happens, said Jobs, 'by exposing yourself to the best things humans have done and then trying to bring the same things into what you are doing'.”
― Ewan Clayton, The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing

“...for, in [William] Morris's words, 'a work of utility might also be a work of art, if we cared to make it so.”
― Ewan Clayton, The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing