"What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by successively greater things"

“I want to be in control of my own destiny.”

“Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a world of great fortune both in matters of luck and money; stories and fantasies about rock stars and film stars, sporting millionaires and models; jet-setting members of the aristocracy and international financiers.”

Source : James Kelman (2012). “And the Judges Said&…: Essays”, p.56, Birlinn

“When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and blues”

“The difference between transformation by accident and transformation by a system is like the difference between lightning and a lamp. Both give illumination, but one is dangerous and unreliable, while the other is relatively safe, directed, available.”

Source : Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

“Wait with patience and love and strength. If helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings.”

“Everybody assumes I know everything, so they send me these notes sometimes, and I don't know what they're talking about.”

“I do love that witches havent really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.”

“Lawyers are like spiders, they've eat up all the flies, and I guess they'll have to eat each other soon.”