“ Most writers deserve the reputation posterity has bestowed upon them: You can’t for long conceal the toxic spots on your character—Philip Larkin is Exhibit A—nor can you conceal your dignity, your hum… William Giraldi
“ Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three. Philip Larkin
“ I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not. Philip Larkin
