Ann Winder-Boyle's small-scale encaustic pictures always reward a second look - they have an intriguing edge of darkness about them.

The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile or at best indifferent.

At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as the potential forms of painting itself.

Like in Facebook is simply a kiss on the check.

It is not what you have on you, but what you have in you.

The idea that Taylor Swift would become the giant pop icon of 2015, 2016 - she's really good, but I don't think it's written in the stars.

I've never been offered a job that I turned down and regretted. I didn't have Stanley Kubrick offer me something and me say no.

It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.

The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between the fantastic and the drab seems too narrow.

I couldn't relate to kid stuff. 'Jimmy doesn't like me!' Who cares? I was worried we didn't have gas money or food. Those were my concerns.

I could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write 'sports sports sports sports sports' for three pages.

Anybody that has a decent job or career has it because they love what they do.

Don't try to be the 'next'. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new.