Upward, not Northward.

I'm not very good at working for other people. I mostly make pictures because of some whim. With luck, I get a glimpse of something, and then it turn….

We can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without being Jewish. We dream Jewish dreams and hope Jewish hopes. Most of our best words, i….

By 40, all women are amazing..

For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound..

An image is always only showing what's necessary for a thought, not the thought itself..

Someone suggested the Kaiser Chiefs while we were looking for a band name. We had so many ideas ourselves, at least one of us had said no to every id….

I lived and languished..

Equipped with our five senses - along with telescopes and microscopes and mass spectrometers and seismographs and magnetometers and particle accelera….

Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are..

There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how….

The Bible isn't a choose your own adventure book where everyone can just make up their own meaning..

Words will be just words till you bring them to life.

I am occasionally loveable but for the most part I’m like loving a raincloud..

The simpler things are, the happier they are..

Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier..

The more you talk about something, the less accurate it gets..

Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything.

If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle….

3-D movies can make me nauseous..

For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling….