Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.

Something in your voice tells me we approach the question of remuneration.

Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot.

Mr Blawke always reminded me of a heron; I'm not sure why. Something to do with a sense of rapacious stillness, perhaps, and also the aura of one who knows time is on his side.

There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.

I've always loved Scotland, and I'm not a huge fan of big cities, to be honest. I like them to dip into for a bit, but I'm not sure I would want to live in one again.

In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.

A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.

Mutual understanding is the main backbone of every happy relationship.

Let the red dawn surmise What we shall do, When this blue starlight dies And all is through.”(The Yellow Sign)

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

All along, let us remember we are not asked to understand, but simply to obey.

I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.

It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

Let us stand a little taller, if you don't, you will never strengthen yourself

When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.

Arrogance is an exaggeration of the truth.