"You can cover a great deal of country in books. "
— Andrew Lang

"You do not throw stones at a man with a machine gun!"
— Roddy Piper

"A light purse makes a heavy heart."
— Scottish Proverb

"Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie! "
— Robert Burns

"Not the bee upon the blossom,
In the pride o' sunny noon;
Not the little sporting fairy,
All beneath the simmer moon;
Not the poet, in the moment
Fancy lightens in his e'e,
Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture,
That thy presence gi'es to me."
— Robert Burns

""But lassies are trained for it, in a manner of speaking; it's part of the growing-up process for them, young females. It doesn't happen with boys, just if you're a lassie, you've got to learn how not to talk; plus how not to look, you get trained how not to look. How not to look and how not to talk. You get trained how not to do things.""
— James Kelman

" I wrote my first novel, McFarlane Boils The Sea, under the influence of Kelman and Proust, which is like drinking a cocktail of Bowmore and Châteauneuf du Pape.
(James Meek in interview with TMO)"
— James Meek