“Giggity, giggity.”

“This is life, the one you get so go and have a ball, because the world don't move, to the beat of just one drum. What might be right for you, may not be right for some. You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have my opening statement..sit ubu sit. Good dog.”

“When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.”

“The only problem is time.”

“Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.”

“I felt my way up the cliffs to the south until I found a patch of machair a few yards long and a few wide, where I pitched my tent and settled to sleep. The stars stood sharp above. It felt odd to be on rock again, not sea, to think of the ground on which I lay extending down to the floor of the Minch. Lying there, I could still feel the day at sea, blood and water slopping about in my bag of skin, the tidal churn of my liquid body, a roll and sway in the skull. My mind beat back north against the current, thinking of the puffins' flight, the lines we leave behind us, the spacious weave, our wake, then sleep.”

“We don't come fresh to even the most inaccessible of landscapes....We carry expectations and to an extent make what we meet conform to those expectations.p 195”