The Orkney imagination is haunted by time.

The imagination is not an escape, but a return to the richness of our true selves; a return to reality.

In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.

Without the story - in which everyone living, unborn and dead, participates - men are no more than bits of paper blown on the cold wind.

As soon as the seal was clear of the water, it reared up and its skin slipped down to the sand. What had been a seal was a white-skinned boy

Hills tell old stories. Cliffs are poets with harps.

Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows.

We never find what we set out hearts on. We ought to be glad of that.

Jews highly value having an abundance of money for the sake of caring for their families and for helping the needy.

Beliefs shape the size of our opportunities. Love expands them beyond faith.

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.

It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.