“Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.” HardStatesWeatherPrimalShagging Book:The Acid House Source: The Acid House
“If the media is just a cheerleader for an authoritarian populist, who isn't that popular, then we're in a sorry state. The media has to be critical - it has to scrutinize it, it has to call out things.” IfsStatesMediaSorryCriticalPopulistCheerleaderScrutinize Author:Irvine Welsh
“The thing about drugs is that it [dealing] gives people an income to deal with, and it also gives people a compelling drama in their lives that they used to get from the office and the factory, and they're no longer there. What happens if you have everything in the hands of the state, particularly in the line of an authoritarian state, they just give people drugs to keep them doped up, to keep them passive.” PeopleIfsGivingStatesHandsHappensUsedLinesDealsDramaDrugOfficeIncomeFactoriesCompellingPassive Author:Irvine Welsh
“It's crazy for somebody who's kind of empowered and wealthy like myself to say, "Oh, I don't need to be patronized by the state, I can make my own choices." But I've got things to look forward to, and places to go and if that'd been me there forty years ago, when I was a young kid in Muirhouse, it might've been a different story.” IfsNeedsYearsLooksKindI CanDifferentStatesStoriesMightKidsYoungChoicesMy OwnCrazyYears AgoFortyWealthyEmpoweredPlaces To Go Author:Irvine Welsh
“I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state.” ThinkingStatesPoorBecomingBritainPoorestScots Author:Irvine Welsh
“It's the UK: We have to get beyond that imperialist state. I think that kind of imperialist, hierarchical, elitist state has made it easier to basically shaft everybody in the country, which it's been doing for the last thirty years. It has also sort of made it more difficult for England to fulfill its destiny, which in my mind is creating a multi-ethnic, multicultural society that is truly at the head of that post-imperial commonwealth ideal. I think that that's what England should be and that that's the kind of nation we should be.” ThinkingShouldYearsMindKindMadeCountryStatesLastsNationsDifficultDestinyEasierCreatingIdealsEnglandMade ItPostsThirtyThirty YearsCommonwealthMulticulturalElitistMulticultural Society Author:Irvine Welsh
“It's all been quite a revitalizing process for me, being out there in the States. It wouldn't have happened without Trainspotting.” StatesProcessHappenedTrainspotting Author:Irvine Welsh
“You've got first-generation Americans here who are going to be poorer than their parents. That's never happened in the States before, and it's going to have massive social repercussions here.” FirstsStatesSocialParentGenerationsHappenedMassiveRepercussions Author:Irvine Welsh
“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.” WantBelieveKindDoeStatesCrapHeads Up Author:Irvine Welsh
