I'm not making any secret of the fact I still believe in independence. We'll continue to argue the case.

I hope Donald Trump doesn't become president of the United States and I expect the people of the United States will have the good sense not to elect him.

I should say that being independent in the modern model means independent in a very interdependent world. An independent Scotland is not apart from the rest of the United Kingdom.

Scotland's voice has to be heard

I think it is disgraceful. I think it is completely disgusting that you've got a candidate for prime minster who seems to think that human beings are bargaining chips.

So after a lovely family Xmas day, this 80s teen is off to bed feeling a bit sad, but listening to this masterpiece [George Michael: I can't make you love me].

This is just too awful. Such an amazing talent [like George Michael] gone too soon. Wham was part of the soundtrack to my teenage years.

Sad to hear that George Michael has died.He was an exceptional artist and a strong supporter of LGBT and workers' rights.

Equality and prosperity shouldn't be seen as enemies of each other, but as partners. One reinforces the other.

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

My pledge to you is that the SNP will put women and gender equality right at the heart of the Westminster agenda.

We could give each other a hope, if we communicate with each other in the school, supermarket, bus, train, plane….!

It seems to me that really crazy people don't think they're crazy. Why would you?

Paris, the FedEx deliveryman of Pleasure and Fatality.

And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.

Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all.

A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.

You're actually using your brain. That's what comes from associating with me.

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.