One autumn morning, as I read a dead poet's letters in my friend Wendy's backyard in San Francisco, I glimpse a fragment of that atomic mutuality.

Figuring

Maria Popova

Dogs like to talk. We are talking all the time, non-stop. To each other, to humans, to ourselves. Talk, talk, talk . . . During every sniff, every bark, every crotch nuzzle, every spray of a lamppost, we are speaking our minds. So if you want the truth, ask the dog

The Last Family in England

Matt Haig

Negotiations aren't the final round in a bout to determine winner and loser; they are a process

The Kremlin School of Negotiation

Igor Ryzov

All actions have consequences. This is how life goes.

This Is How

M.J. Hyland

Video: Introducing Gilliamesque

One day I will be in the Guinness Book of Records... I don't see the point of living unless there is something I can do better than anyone else can.

Carry Me Down

M.J. Hyland

Alasdair Gray interviewed by the BBC in 2007 on his introduction to art and books.