It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.

I am easily persuaded to continue to have fun.

[Edinburgh] is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

I am capable of being idle.

And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often the opposite of what one really wanted to do.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.