There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
You have to know what you want to get it.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
I trained as a painter, and I still love painting, but eventually I became aware that the physical aspect of painting didn't really suit me. I didn't enjoy working in the medium. It's very messy. I prefer to have it clean, with a nice computer.
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread. . . and a thousand other things of the same kind.
Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print, but nothing in my destiny possesses the luminosity. I live among diffuse shadings, veiled mysteries, uncertainties; the tone of telling my life is closer to that of a portrait in sepia.
Before you ignore another homeless person on the street, just remember that that could be someone's father or someone's mother and they have a story.