Caitlin McCay

“...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

“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

“Then everybody wept,
Or sat, too exhausted to weep,
Or lay, too hurt to weep.”
― Ted Hughes

“...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