“Water is sufficient... the spirit moves over water.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo ... See MoreSee Less

"If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light."
- Victor Hugo ... See MoreSee Less

"They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist."
- Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin ... See MoreSee Less

"Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached."
- Ian McEwan, Atonement ... See MoreSee Less

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”
― Voltaire ... See MoreSee Less

“It was but imagination, yet imagination had all the terrors of reality; nay, it was worse, for the reality would have come and gone, and there an end, but in imagination it was always coming, and never went away.”
― Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop ... See MoreSee Less

Just back from the Simon Community Scotland Street Reads library after dropping off a copy of the book. Brilliant facility and great to meet the team who do such great work. ... See MoreSee Less

"Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it."
- Vincent van Gogh ... See MoreSee Less

"Colour! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams."
- Paul Gauguin ... See MoreSee Less

"He is climbing the spiral staircase of the soul of Gormenghast, bound for some pinnacle of the itching fancy - some wild, invulnerable eyrie best known to himself; where he can watch the world spread out below him, and shake exultantly his clotted wings."
- Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast ... See MoreSee Less

"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves."
- Abraham Lincoln ... See MoreSee Less

"Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate."
- Wilfred Owen ... See MoreSee Less

Today I sent £800 to Simon Community Scotland as a donation of the proceeds from the book. This was possible because of all of you who bought the book and, of course, the amazing Obverse Books. Can't thank all of you enough. ... See MoreSee Less

“If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.”
― Guy de Maupassant ... See MoreSee Less

"Amélie has a strange feeling of absolute harmony. It's a perfect moment. A soft light, a scent in the air, the quiet murmur of the city. A surge of love, an urge to help mankind overcomes her."
- from the film Amélie ... See MoreSee Less