My work is about the underbelly of the beauty of nature - and the dark side of nature is its indifference. Nature isn't friendly, nor is it unfriendly - it's the perfect embodiment of the Other.

Of course 'we humans' have a funny relationship with the beings with whom we share our planet. We eat them, we care for them, we admire them, we use them.

The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.

A date is an experience you have with another person that makes you appreciate being alone.

If a nation succeeds in making her people strong in virtues, then the nation is rich already.

I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.

When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make.

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

I think I existed on four hours sleep a night for four years.

When the mind adjusts to simply staying here, then that mind is not called mind any more. It's just Self. It's only ever Self.

There was a whole army of people who seemed not to have anything better to do than to try to disrupt her life, and , if they were given the opportunity, to correct the way she had chosen to live it.

You know I grew up watching the TV series The Rifleman.