But as a Scot with a lifelong love of Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good to miss. Simply put there is no more creative an act than creating a new nation.

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable.

I've never really fancied Mexican food. A taco rather minds me of a puncture outfit.

The great Jack Nicklaus summed things up neatly during a charity match on the Old Course at St. Andrews where he and I were playing against Ben Crenshaw and Glen Campbell. I asked him what he considered to be the most important factor to overcome in the game of golf. His reply, "It's an unfair game."

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.