"Do you wretchedly pay the price for your own misdeed, or your forefathers, or your prince, as the grim plague of a threatening pestilence seethes and rages against you?"
- Hercules Rollock, De peste Edinburgi & reliqua late Scotia grassante anno 1585 nania
( a poem describing the 1585 Edinburgh plague ) ... See MoreSee Less

Festival Edinburgh looking glorious in the sun ... See MoreSee Less

“Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.”
― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds ... See MoreSee Less

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary ... See MoreSee Less

“You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.”
― Franz Kafka ... See MoreSee Less

"Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high."
- William Goldman, The Princess Bride ... See MoreSee Less

"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence."
- George Eliot, Middlemarch ... See MoreSee Less

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
- Albert Einstein ... See MoreSee Less

"I keep telling you: it's the mystery that endures. Not the explanation."
- Neil Gaiman, The Sandman ... See MoreSee Less

"To sleep - perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub!
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come"
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet ... See MoreSee Less

"I love tranquil solitude,
And such society
As is quiet, wise, and good."
- Percy Bysshe Shelley ... See MoreSee Less

"In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself."
- Albert Einstein ... See MoreSee Less

"I'm trying to make work that is reflective and is encouraging of reflection."
- Antony Gormley ... See MoreSee Less

"I stand not on the shoulders of Newton, but on the shoulders of James Clerk Maxwell."
- Albert Einstein ... See MoreSee Less

“Now the darkness had also spoken:
a word that could not be unsaid.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Earthsea Quartet ... See MoreSee Less