"So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do."

“I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my protagonist. Each book hopefully adds another piece to the jigsaw that is modern Scotland, asking questions about the nation's politics, economy, psyche and history ... and perhaps pointing towards its possible future.”

“Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.”

“Warning signs that lover is bored: 1. Passionless kisses 2. Frequent sighing 3. Moved, left no forwarding address.”

“People ought to be going over this, finding things they don't like. Congress has clearly proved they can act in a hurry. If there's something wrong with it, it can be amended. If something needs to be kicked in, it can be put in. If something needs to be taken out, it can be taken out.”

“I'm pretty much a loner and I've lived under the radar.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“You are as much serving God in looking after your own children, & training them up in God’s fear, & minding the house, & making your household a church for God, as you would be if you had been called to lead an army to battle for the Lord of hosts.”

“Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason.”

Source : Joseph Alexander Leighton (1901). “Typical Modern Conceptions of God: Or, The Absolute of German Romantic Idealism and of English Evolutionary Agnosticism, with a Constructive Essay”

“I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus.”