I'm very lucky. I had a great childhood.

Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you dont need to do anything to Shakespeare.

There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.

It sounds almost unreal, but I was born and raised on old castlegrounds - Kenmure Castle.

I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical, it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.

Im obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, Id love to go to space.

It's hard to make a book episodic.

I've always been into endurance sport, which I think is more about your mind pushing your body, which is definitely why that Bear Grylls book sung to me.

Scotland is about layering. The weather changes every 10 minutes.

[Vice chairman of Barbour] Helen [Barbour] and I realized that I come from the same village that her ancestor John Barbour came from, who created Barbour. It just seemed like such a great connection.

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

If you want to criticize someone, do not compare him with an imaginary creature but yourself.

I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.

I was in the Chilli Peppers at the time and I asked myself, would I be able to wear a sock on my genitals at the age of forty and they proved me wrong because I guess they're still doing it.

Life without learning is death.

I say, ‘You should blanket me’ or ‘you should blanket her’, meaning like a blanket is a blessing. It’s a way of showing love and caring.

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

We are synonyms but not the same.

Israel demonstrated real hooliganism during the course of the recent operation, which I demanded.

Every moment is the manifestation of the whole. Life itself is, therefore, nothing but the continuous moment of the whole, and everybody is living the continuous moment of the whole.