"I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually?"

-- Ian Rankin

#Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Scotland Quotes

“I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning.”
“The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.”

Source : "So there's these three Irishmen". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2001.
“There is great pain in all love, but we don't care, it's worth it.”
“And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.”
“I taught myself to tune in to another persons wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.”
“the lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.”
“Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.”

Source : SAUL BELLOW (1971). “MR. SAMMLER'S PLANET”
“It's a difficult job to do, but that is why we do it. Only so many people can do it. But it, it enables you to... for a brief period of time to kind of get away. You have to go back and deal with, but it's a good escape.”

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