“ I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it. Alasdair Gray
“ ...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining. Alasdair Gray
“ Metaforen är ett av tankens väsentligaste verktyg. Den belyser vad som annars skulle ligga helt i mörker. Men denna belysning blir ibland så klar att den bländar istället för avslöjar. Alasdair Gray
“ He looked at them and saw their faces did not fit. The skin on the skulls crawled and twitched like half-solid paste. All the heads in his angle of vision seemed irregular lumps, like potatoes but wit… Alasdair Gray
“ I clenched my teeth and fists to stop them biting and scratching these clever men who want no care for the helpless sick small, who use religions and politics to stay comfortably superior to all that… Alasdair Gray
“ The body of the last Flealouse contained the flesh of everything that had ever lived. It was content. Alasdair Gray
“ Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits, and spermatozoa and ovaries into fishy little plants growing babyward… Alasdair Gray
“ People who care nothing for their country's stories and songs,' he said, 'are like people without a past- without a memory- they are half people Alasdair Gray
“ Glasgow is a magnificent city,” said McAlpin. “Why do we hardly ever notice that?” “Because nobody imagines living here…think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first t… Alasdair Gray
“ Who did the council fight?""It split in two and fought itself.""That's suicide!""No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way o… Alasdair Gray
“ Nature gives children great emotional resilience to help them survive the oppressions of being small, but these oppressions still make them into slightly insane adults, either mad to seize all the pow… Alasdair Gray
“ One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away. Alasdair Gray
“ Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it. Alasdair Gray
“ You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable. Alasdair Gray
