Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.
Any piece of good music is in essence a love song.
Tell him I hate him to his guts and the marrow of his bones!
It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.
Knowing that everything is possible suddenly nothing is necessary.
The past is gone-the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I.
Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.
The colors of living things begin to fade with the last breath, and the soft, springy skin and supple muscle rot within weeks. But the bones sometimes remain, faithful echoes of the shape, to bear some last faint witness to the glory of what was.
It’s a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.
And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory must be the Devil.
Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.
I read all the time. People ask, ‘Do you read while you work?’ And I say, ‘I better.’ I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can’t go that long without reading.
Home is the place where they have to take you in.
If I find I need guidance, I’ll ask.
I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye like a rotting bull. I dinna understand myself.
Healing comes from the healed; not from the physician.
What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.
Your face is my heart Sassenach, and the love of you is my soul.
I felt the tributaries of his veins, wished to enter into his bloodstream, travel there, dissolved and bodiless, to take refuge in the thick walled chambers of his heart.
Everyone can lie, young Roger, given cause enough. Even me. It’s only that it’s harder for those of us who live in glass faces; we have to think up our lies ahead of time.