“for what is religion if not a kind of madness, and what is madness without a touch of religion?”

“Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.”

“But I do like Scotland. I like the miserable weather. I like the miserable people, the fatalism, the negativity, the violence that's always just below the surface. And I like the way you dea...”