“Can you taste it Bruce? Can you taste the filth, the dirt, the oily blackness of that fossil fuel in our mouth… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The first time I went to West Virginia I was surprised by how poor it was. It was like north India, there's… — Irvine Welsh America Copy Share Image
“To those of us gathered here today, Matthew Connell filled a number of different roles in our lives. Matthew was a son,… — Irvine Welsh Eye contact Copy Share Image
“This is from "Marabou Stork Nightmares". Bernard's Poem: Did you see her on the telly the other day good family entertainment the… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get… — Irvine Welsh Culture Copy Share Image
I don't see [ Trainspotting ] as an albatross, I see it more as a calling card. It's got me out to… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
When you think about what Homo sapiens are about, you almost feel that we are replacing ourselves. We won't be able to… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
In the cross-over, you get to a point where you realize that you've got all this genetic inheritance, and you've got all… — Irvine Welsh Choice Copy Share Image
The first of the Trainspotting crew to die. Out of the five of them like, Begbie, Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and [Margaret]… — Irvine Welsh Book Copy Share Image
He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the… — Irvine Welsh Belief Copy Share Image
“We wait and think and doubt and hate. How does it make you feel? The overwhelming feeling is rage. We hate ourself… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“He's going on and on, and I can't be bothered. I just can't be fuckin well arsed saying something like: Solaris shites… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
People even split up by text message, they dump each other by text. Everything seems so disposable, so throwaway, but you have… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Most people with good jobs, middle-class occupations, what have you, are only one pitfall away from social embarrassment and destitution. It's so… — Irvine Welsh Class Copy Share Image
“They filed out into the cold night at closing time, heading for Begbie's place with a carry-out. They'd already spent twelve hours… — Irvine Welsh Closing time Copy Share Image
I think that in the future, as more and more money and wealth goes to the 1 per cent, it's going to… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
You know, people tend to get stereotyped for about forty percent of their behavior, so if you're completely crazy forty percent of… — Irvine Welsh Behavior Copy Share Image
I think just getting up and getting to the desk is a big thing. If you can do that, you're in the… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
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… — Irvine Welsh Choices Copy Share Image
Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're jaded cunts,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Ah walk doon Hammersmith Broadway, London seeming strange and alien, after only a three-month absence, as familiar places do when you’ve been… — Irvine Welsh Absence Copy Share Image
I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature… — Irvine Welsh Anxiety Copy Share Image
I think, ironically, the media's been good for America, but Trump's been good for the media. He's revitalized The New York Times… — Irvine Welsh Agendas Copy Share Image
I think that there are just so many people that can't afford not to have Obama win. He's gotten so many disenfranchised… — Irvine Welsh America Copy Share Image
I was in Athens for a football match when 9/11 went down, and it was quite spectacular - we went into this… — Irvine Welsh Athens Copy Share Image
“- Makes nae fucking difference. Rents n Stevie came up fae London for this. If Rents n Stevie kin come up fae… — Irvine Welsh Conservative party Copy Share Image
We've become used to processing images that are part of the non-linear narrative theory. I think there's a thinner line between fantasy… — Irvine Welsh Fantasy Copy Share Image
People go to the big urban centres because they have a quality of life, a quality of intellectual inquiry in the big… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
![“I don't see [ Trainspotting ] as an albatross, I see it more as a calling card. It's got me out to Hollywood, I've got a good agent, I've got a good manager, I'm getting a lot of work out there and doing a lot of stuff - getting a lot of film projects on the go.” quote by Irvine Welsh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/918/irvine-welsh-843_agents_i-don-t-see-trainspotting-as-an-albatros_7750.jpg)
![“The first of the Trainspotting crew to die. Out of the five of them like, Begbie, Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and [Margaret] Thatcher. Who'd have thunk she'd have been the first to go? She was the invisible author of the book, really. She created the conditions and the hubris whereby that whole culture…” quote by Irvine Welsh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/868/irvine-welsh-843_book_the-first-of-the-trainspotting-crew-to-d_2665422.jpg)
![“I think that there are just so many people that can't afford not to have Obama win. He's gotten so many disenfranchised people back into the political system that if he didn't win, the disillusionment in America and the idea of more of the same failed policies of the last eight years [2000-2008]…” quote by Irvine Welsh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cc/irvine-welsh-843_america_i-think-that-there-are-just-so-many-peop_700710.png)
