Living like this is a full-time business.

— Irvine Welsh

Now most people would put this down TAE experience, ye always want what ye can nae have and the things that ye din nae really GIE a toss about get handed ta eye OAN a plate.

— Irvine Welsh

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

— Irvine Welsh

Renton looks at her and sees her pain and anger. It cuts him up. It confuses him. Kelly has a great sense of humor. What's wrong with her? The knee–jerk thought: Wrong time of the' month is forming in his head when he looks about and picks up the intonations of the laughter around the bar. It's not funny laughter. This is lynched mob laughter. How was ah TAE know, he thinks. How the fuck was ah TAE know?

— Irvine Welsh

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

— Irvine Welsh

Still, failure, success, what is it? What gives a fuck. We aw live, then we die, in quite a short space a time n PW. That's it; end a fucking story.

— Irvine Welsh

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

— Irvine Welsh

The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.

— Irvine Welsh

The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want a sought at, like at that Princess Diana's funeral, they want to scrutinize those who really knew her, to drink the misery out of their faces.

— Irvine Welsh

There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.

— Irvine Welsh