That's what I really wanted to do when I was 16, be in comics!

I see myself as a recovering journalist.

My feelings towards the newspapers are very affectionate.

Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent.

One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.

I am a print addict. I have an ebook and a computer but I remain hooked on print.

My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.

Every woman deserves to be handled like a princess, She just needs to find her prince.

Throw a champion into the ocean, and he’ll swim.Throw a champion into the pit, and he’ll climb.Throw him off a cliff, and he’ll grow wings.Throw him into a furnace, and he’ll become gold.

The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.

I think myself that, rather like books, music is meant to enter into the brain, well via your ears rather than your eyes but, it's - I think a lot more should be left to the imagination.

The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

A piece of a Churchyard fits everybody.

Had the Luhyas united, my plans would have been impossible to fulfil .

It's also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that it is computationally capable.

Let me into the darkness again.