Glaswegian ebola patient moved to London's Royal Free Hospital. Not so independent when it matters most are we jocksville?
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.
Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.
When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.
Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.
When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view
I've always loved The Simpsons, just because it was really, really funny. As a kid, you love the characters. You know that the dad is dumb and frustrated, and you know that the boy is smarter than everyone else around him and is constantly getting into mischief.
When you love someone, when you care for someone, you have to do it through the good and the bad. Not just when you're happy and it's easy.
The key is to photograph your obsessions, whether that’s old people’s hands or skyscrapers. Think of a blank canvas, because that’s what you’ve got, and then think about what you want to see. Not anyone else.
A studio is an absolute labyrinth of possibilities - this is why records take so long to make because there are millions of permutations of things you can do. The most useful thing you can do is to get rid of some of those options before you start