“One autumn morning, as I read a dead poet's letters in my friend Wendy's backyard in San Francisco, I glimpse a fragment of that atomic mutuality.”
“Dogs like to talk. We are talking all the time, non-stop. To each other, to humans, to ourselves. Talk, talk, talk . . . During every sniff, every bark, every crotch nuzzle, every spray of a lamppost, we are speaking our minds. So if you want the truth, ask the dog”
“Negotiations aren't the final round in a bout to determine winner and loser; they are a process”
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“One day I will be in the Guinness Book of Records... I don't see the point of living unless there is something I can do better than anyone else can.”
‘The grity, gripping and grimly comic stories in The Graybar Hotel give form and content to inmates lives that, on the surface, are defined by loneliness, boredom, violence and alienation.’
Chris Moss
The Telegraph Men
Alasdair Gray interviewed by the BBC in 2007 on his introduction to art and books.
