There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.

Most movies shot in Italian don't even bother to record the sound. In fact, sometimes when Fellini works, he doesn't even know what the dialogue is going to be, and he simply has his characters count from 1 to 10, knowing he will loop in their dialogue later.

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.

You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.

Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable.

Be careful what you shoot at . . . most things in here don't react too well to bullets.

I suppose I'll be able to get a drink there.