Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines us mair accurately in a single sentence than all the others have ever done.
Irvine WelshIf I don't have something to do, I'm not the kind of person who can sit on a beach on holiday. I've got to go and check things out and see things and look at things, and have some kind of itinerary in my mind. I think that a lot of people who are, in some ways, successful are kind of like that.
Irvine WelshBruce, youโre an ugly and silly old man. Youโre very possibly an alcoholic and God knows what else. Youโre the type of sad case who preys on vulnerable, weak and stupid women in order to boost his own shattered ego. Youโre a mess. Youโve gone wrong somewhere pal.
Irvine WelshI'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
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