Nobody will give you freedom. You have to take it.

Every notion is born along with its form. I make reality of ideas as they come into my head

Freedom is not something you are given, but something you have to take.

...It is a well known fact that most artists produce their best work early in their career. They may refine what they do but you usually get the measure of what they are about on their first outing.

Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

Jobs that cannot be delivered must never be promised. It's unfair to raise people's hopes that way.

Do not seek to change what has come before. Seek to create that which has not

Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.

The difference between a politician and a snail is that the snail leaves its slime behind. Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.

Different things just strike people differently. And it's so subjective, too. Because what makes one person laugh won't make others laugh. I guess it's kind of checkerboarded.

But what an mortal man do to secure his own salvation?" Mortal man can do just what God bids him do. Be can repent and believe. He can arise and follow Christ as Matthew did.