My reaction to your news is delighted astonishment that Lanark has been judged more popular than a book by Ian Rankin, and only regret that this wonderful honour had no money attached to it!

Truth was, if you were going to believe something, it was best to believe in stuff that made the world seem a more interesting place.

Friends may come and go but enemies accumulate.

It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree

Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books.

I'm in pain but I'm confident I'll feel better tomorrow.

You can change. And you can be an agent of change.

I love those who can smile in trouble.

Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.

As I have been arguing for a long time now, there is a real need not simply for a political economy of wealth but also for a political economy of speed.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.