“Conservatives are giving up on democracy because it's not efficient. They want an autocratic regime.” WantGivingDemocracyGiving UpRegimesEfficient Author:Irvine Welsh
“I think there is a natural thing that you feel when you've written something taboo because you just don't want to expose the people you're close to.” PeopleThinkingWantFeelsNaturalWrittenTabooNatural Things Author:Irvine Welsh
“I think of the women I know, and very few of them are obsessed with shopping, or with getting a guy - they want their own thing, they have their own network going on.” ThinkingKnowsWantGuyObsessedShopping Author:Irvine Welsh
“When you look at the whole explosion of the Internet, the decline of print journalism, there are all of these plus-or-minus ramifications, and you have to work it out. The great thing about books is that you have a tactile thing that's there. You can download this or download that, but how long do you want to be staring at a screen for the rest of your life? You've got to have some kind of proper interface for people that's not about the screen.” PeopleWantLooksKindLongBookWholeInternetScreensGreat ThingsJournalismStaringWorking ItPlusPrintDeclineRest Of Your LifeExplosionsMinusDownloadsInterfacesRamificationsTactile Author:Irvine Welsh
“I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my own psychological vulnerability and my lack of suitability as a companion. Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as i struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life.” PeopleWantGivingBigsMightOrderMy OwnSpaceBrainAnxietyPsychologicalRecognitionVulnerabilityCompanionMatureCrowdedAversion Book:The Acid House Source: The Acid House
“There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction...no, it's because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time.” KnowsWantMomentsBeautifulSweetConvictionWhat You WantHorribleBitterBeautiful MomentsImpasseBitter SweetPanache 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
“The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want a shufti at, like at that Princess Diana's funeral, they want to scrutinise those who really knew her, to drink the misery out of their faces.” MenWantFacesDrinkMiseryChestsFuneralPrincessCollapseDead ManDianaGhoulsTrolleys Book:Filth Source: Filth
“I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.” WantWritingLastsHateTechnologyInternetI HateScreensMore Time Author:Irvine Welsh
