Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.

You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes.

...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining.

I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.

Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.

Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.

I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.

I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.

But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than our experiences of the things they represent—

She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.

Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.

A Large-Scale Revolution can not happen without a higher-awareness to seek Personal Growth on an individual level.

She was never going to get used to how much the Faeries seem to stare at her, as if dissecting her and examining the little pieces inside her like a science project.~Ever Fire: A Dark Faerie Tale #2

God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.

Pure motives do not insure perfect results.

Finding your way doesn't mean you always know where you're going. It's knowing how to find your way back home that's important.

The eyes of my eyes are opened.

Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.

I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!

From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.