The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been writing plays and adapting novels for ‘Woman’s Hour’ and the ‘Classic’ series. So this was originally a three-hander play, broadcast one sunny afternoon on BBC Radio 4. Rachel Joyce Read Quote
I just do my work, and I work every day, and my ambition is just to do something better than I last did. Patti Smith Read Quote
There’s a reason nationalists build walls, denigrate foreigners, and denounce immigrants: Because our people are better than those people. There’s a reason nationalism has so often become violent in the past. For if we – our nation – are better, then what right do others have to live beside us? Or to occupy land that we covet? Anne Applebaum Read Quote
I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen. Louis Begley Read Quote
A photograph can make you feel so many different things. When you look at war photographs of Vietnam, or something similar, it makes you feel anguish and sadness and pain. Then in other moments, when you look at Jackie Kennedy walking down Fifth Avenue, that makes you feel glory and richness. Mario Testino Read Quote
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house. Bjarke Ingels Read Quote
Our phones don’t just keep us in touch with the world; they’re also diaries, confessional booths, repositories for our deepest secrets. Jenna Wortham Read Quote
