Lanark

Citations

• “Art is the only work open to people who can't get along with others and still want to be special.”

• “Space is infinite to men without destinations.”

• “People in Scotland have a queer idea of the arts. They think you can be an artist in your spare time, though nobody expects you to be a spare-time dustman, engineer, lawyer or brain surgeon.”

• “I wish I was a duck on Alexandra Park pond. I could swim, and fly, and walk, and have three wives, and everything I wanted. But I'm a man. I have a mind, and three library tickets, and everything I want is impossible.”

• “Instead of making life a continual feast you chop it into days and swallow them regularly, like pills.”

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