‘The impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned, is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.’ (Annie Dillard)

‘Sir, My husband, T S Eliot, loved to recount how one evening he stopped a taxi. As he got in the driver said: “You’re T S Eliot.” When asked how he knew, he replied, “Ah, I’ve got an eye for celebrity. Only the other evening I picked up Bertrand Russell and I said to him ‘Well, Lord Russell, what’s it all about?’ and, do you know, he couldn’t tell me.’ (Letter to The Times, 7 February, 1970).

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