Hit me with your rhythm stick, it's nice to be a lunatic.

All I want for my birthday is another birthday.

There are a couple of ways to avoid death, one is to be magnificent.

Had a love affair with Nina in the back of my Cortina. A seasoned up hyena, could not have been more obscener.

I'm in love with the person in the sandwich centre. If she didn't exist I'd have to invent her.

I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.

I'm not here to be remembered, I'm here to be alive.

For every good song, I write 20 bad ones I have to chuck away.

Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.

There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never had

I can but pray the Father o' a' to haud his e'e upon her, an' his airms aboot her, an' keep aff the hardenin' o' the hert 'at despises coonsel!

We have a tried and tested system of government that in being so flexible exists as a great ghost that no one has dared to conjure into flesh.

One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning.

Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.

The internet is awesome and responsible for my success.

I am more afraid of doing what is wrong than of dying.

I'm not one of those people who as a writer lets my characters tell me what they want to do or call to me or seek me. I go seeking for things, using them as an agent, really.

Faith is your reaction to God's ability.