There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

But he'll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one's soul.

Talk less. Do more. Fear less. Achieve more.

While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating.

Our consciousness, a startling outgrowth of the universe, is possibly its most important part, the fraction of existence that can think, feel, marvel at itself.

It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.

Casual elegance is all about the mix.

Thanks are the highest form of thought.

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.

I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.

Come, my Lady Dangerous, your Daimons await. (Valerius)

I’ll wait out here until the two of you are finished. Just call out if you need anything. Like a priest, cop, or lion tamer. (Aimee)