...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.

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.

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.

Don't let your habits become handcuffs

PROBLEMS are like cold or hot water, how much you pack it tightly but its moisture comes outside

I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe and find my own Clark Gable.

The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.

Friendship is the most constant, the most enduring, the most basic part of love.

I said that there's going to come a day in our lives when women's running is as popular and as men's. Looking back, I obviously had a great sense of vision. And I was right.

I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world." - Paloma

My customers are successful workingwomen.

Buildings should not look like Lady Gaga.