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With the gift of faith, we move on.

Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.

I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.

There is a kind of mysticism to writing.

Drugs are always fun.

It wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed.

His mind was like a cruel prison, giving his captive soul a sight of freedom, but no more

Even evil bastards like Frank Begbie probabably attained an angelic innocence when they were out for the count.

Thir must be less tae life than this.

I grew up in what was not so much a familyas a genetic disaster.

-The renegade robots are now long dead, the metal ones rusted, the human ones bled.

We're all like the slaves in the fields now, putting on the front that says 'Everything's fine, boss' while we worry about how to make ends meet.

Any cunt withoot the virus could git run ower the morn. That's the wey ye huv tae look at it. Cannae jist cancel the gig. The show must go oan.

Now there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism.

But ah'm hugging Janey and thinking about how much a life can change in the time it takes tae fix up.

The trick was to consume as quickly as possible; in doing it this way there was a sense that the body could be cheated.

Her mum thought gourmet cooking was putting a load of fish fingers under the grill instead of in the frying pan.

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.

Take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin miles off the pace

But ah cannae even endorse these sentiments as they are at best peripheral tae the moment.

... if yir gaunny git hung fir stealin a sheep ye might as well shag it n aw.

If every cunt had a ride whin they hud a heidache, thir widnae be as much fuckin trouble in the world.

There's nae reasoning wi some cats. You say 'reason', they mew 'treason'. Ken?

Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right.

It's easy to love, or for that matter hate, somebody in their absence, somebody we don't really know...

Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith.

Square go then smart cunt!

How did it make you feel?

Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on.

Living like this is a full-time business.

Disnae matter if it's Mickey Platini or Franco Begbie, they will aw just have tae wait.

-Fiona, this is my mate, Frank Begbie. Or Franco. Or Beggars. Or the Beggar Boy. Or the Generalissmo. Or Psychotic Bullying Prick.

The black insect-dead eyes in her suety, pockmarked face gaze at him

Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up.

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

She's quite a nice looking lassie or she wid be if she didnae look shite.

Mates are a waste of fucking time. They are always ready to drag you down tae their level of social, sexual and intellectual mediocrity.

This thought though, is nowhere near sufficient tae stop us fae daein what ah huv tae dae.

Fuck that: take shagging n peeve oot ay the equation n yir left wi the sqare root ay swee fuck all!

How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete?

You fucking knew that fucking cunt would fuck some cunt.

Are you asking me or telling me?

...that fucker defines cuntishness.

What worries me is the professionalism of everything.

Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.

It seems to go beyond our personal junk circumstances; a brilliant metaphor for our times.

His friends will decline in their numbers as his needs increase. The inverse, or perverse, mathematics ay life.

But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even.

Don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another

He really is a cunt ay the first order. Nae doubt about that. The big problem is, he's a mate n aw. Whit kin ye dae?

Ah didnae really know much aboot women. Ah didnae really know much aboot anything.

When I get home I take some sleeping pills and within what seemed like half an hour of unconsciousness it was Monday morning again.

No ambition but to use up the big wages on more drink and more hopeless horses.

As if the physical proximity can make up for the emotional distance.

Without this kickstart to my day, I'd be lost. A day without a morning run is a day you fumble through, rather than one you attack.

She's lovely and she's with Skinner, and they're probably in love and there's no justice in this world

His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.

Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.

Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

It seemed that young people, despite their fundamental decency, now had to buy into a mind-set which made viciousness and treachery come easy.

This is a bit like being accused of shagging the sister ah don't have.

I was used to heat but this place was so dry the trees were bribing the dogs.

She's nothing to do with my shit, but fuck it, none of us are saints and scapegoats are always handy.

It was all that vain, egotistical insincerity of self-reproach. By blaming ourselves we take away the right of others to do the same

Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence.

I like the idea of a black sun; like a black hole in space, sucking everything into darkness, where we came from and where we're heading

Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked.

we're not human any more. We've slipped out of our skins like lizards, shedding not just our pasts, but our futures.

I reach into my bag and I pull out my claw hammer.

adjourn for another beer. We

I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

Mental burds; needy, crazy, strength-sappin n soul-destroyin, aye, but mair often than not barry fuckin rides.

On the issue of drugs, we wir classical liberals, vehemently opposed tae state intervention in any form.

It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments.

Might huv ehs ma's brains, cause ay his heid taperin backwards intae a point like a fuckin alien.

The first job of a writer is to be honest.

This is what being alive's all about, all those fucked up feelings. You've got to have them; when you stop, watch out.

It should be the likes ay us that agitate for change, but aw we dae is drugs.

Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers.

We all see what we want to see.

Good luck to progressive candidates in U.S. Senate elections against the usual rich, white, racist, women-hating pricks they run against.

The disease which racked his body was a sweetheart compared to the more obscure one that possessed his sick mind.

Everything in the street today seems soft focus.

No fuckin way: cunt dies when ah fuckin well say eh dies.
(Jim Frances Begbie as he is trying to resuscitate a friend who's having a stroke.)

I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.

[...] but it's aw hate, hate, hate wi some punters, and whair does it git us likesay, man? Whair the fuck does it git us?

Perversity and obstinacy are integral tae the Scottish character.

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

You can't lie to your soul.

You can only learn through failure, and what ye learn is the importance ay preparation.

It's easy tae be philosophical when some other cunt's got shite fir blood.

No tears come, and it would be pointless, like trying to empty a reservoir of grief by drip feed. I'm being daft.

Jim has a nice life, he considers, but sometimes Frank has a hell of a lot more fun.

A lot of men are wankers cause they don't mind bad sex, but for a woman bad sex is far worse than no sex at all.

Okay baby, let's take this rocket to Uranus. This hoor is perfect, and she can act as well.

I'm not running away, I'm moving on.

I wouldn't care about hurting myself or anybody else. Because I know now that doing things doesn't hurt you; you get hurt by avoiding them

You were what you were and you are what you are. Fuck that regrets bullshit.

Gillman smiles, in the cold manner of an assassin. It's like looking in the mirror.