The cause of anger lies in our thinking - in thoughts of blame and judgment.
Hooka Tooka, my soda cracker, does your momma chaw tobacca?
Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business.
I'm just grateful to be on this planet. I have no enemies that I know of. I'm just the guy who makes happy.
It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.
God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.
I want my flowers while I'm alive.
. . . We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.
This power becomes particularly irresistible when exercised by those who, because they hold and control money, are able also to govern credit and determine its allotment, for that reason supplying, so to speak, the lifeblood to the entire economic body, and grasping, as it were, in their hands the very soul of production, so that no one dare breathe against their will.
For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.