But as a Scot with a lifelong love of Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good to miss. Simply put there is no more creative an act than creating a new nation.

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

A martini. Shaken, not stirred.

Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.

The key to a woman's heart is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time.

If you have to resort to violence, you've already lost.

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?

I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.

If you can't do it with one bullet, don't do it at all.

All I see is my father’s tax money being wasted on shooting satellite pictures of South America like you guys work for the Travel Channel.-- Todd Dooley (BLACK MARIAH - A Calling)

I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world - your little carved-out sphere - is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart.

God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.

Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death.

It ain't fair that we have all the rough breaks!

When things change, I think that's easy to get really wrapped up in the complaints.