Uncertainty. Vulnerability. Death. Hard truths have a secret power over us. We’d rather ignore them.

[W]ishing for immortality won't make life last any longer.

When you're in the safety of the future, the past doesn't seem so relevant.

The Rosebank dancing school gives the high-quality training and enjoyable atmosphere for dance lessons in Glasgow.

My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.

[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.

I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones.

But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.

Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.

Dirt is matter in the wrong place.

Anything I write I ask myself: Is it true, is it entertaining?

I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.