Irvine Welsh Quotes

Two choices; one: tough it oot, back in the room, two: phone that cunt Forrester and go tae Muirhoos...

The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from ...

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business...

Ah remember walkin along Princes Street wi Spud, we both hate walkin along that hideous street, dead...

Leave it man. Squirrel’s botherin nae cunt likesay! Ah hate it the wey Mark’s intae hurtin animals… ...

When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in diffe...

There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh...

Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; the...

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

We kissed for a bit and I stopped shaking. We played with each other for a long time, and after we h...

We don’t really communicate […]. We talk all right, talk in that strange language we’ve evolved for ...

The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want...

I just love the weather. I live on Miami Beach, which is all boutique hotels and cocktails. I do som...

think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business d...

Still, failure, success, what is it? Whae gies a fuck. We aw live, then we die, in quite a short spa...

He feels the bleakness crawling into his skull; Franco breaths in steadily, trying to tune in all ou...

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

Can you taste it Bruce? Can you taste the filth, the dirt, the oily blackness of that fossil fuel in...

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

We wait and think and doubt and hate. How does it make you feel? The overwhelming feeling is rage. W...

The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe...

A standing prick hath no conscience. And if that standing prick is attached to Bruce Robertson then ...

When I get home I take some sleeping pills and within what seemed like half an hour of unconsciousne...

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

It unsettles the women as they have dropped their disguise and are now giant praying mantis with blo...

Bit it's what bein a hard man is aw aboot; its a journey, a fucking self destructive quest tae find ...

There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bu...

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

But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, you...

Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're j...

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

Ah'm thinking about shoutin 'stop' but ah could never turn away at this point. If smack is as addict...

This social worker lassie turns round n gies us a stroppy look. Ah jist smiles bit she looked away a...

When you hurt some cunt […] it’s you duty to enjoy it, otherwise you’ve done it for fuck all, it mea...

History repeated itself. The 'don't do the things I did' mantra was tiresome pish. The best way to m...

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

This internal sea. The problem is that this beautiful ocean carries with it loads ay poisonous flots...

Ah sortay jist laugh whin some cats say that racism's an English thing and we're aw Jock Tamson's ba...

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

What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don’t think we...

Living like this is a full-time business.

--Thing is though, Spud, whin yir intae skag, that's it. That's aw yuv goat tae worry aboot. Ken Bil...

Renton looks at her and sees her pain and anger. It cuts himup. It confuses him. Kelly has a great s...

Now most people would put this doon tae experience, ye always want what ye cannae have and the thing...

Ah don't hate the English. They're just wankers. We are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a d...