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.

As a writer, you play this daft game with yourself - you're constantly looking for distractions, anything to stop you from writing, but you're constantly fighting the distractions to write as well.

If you have no drugs, then you have revolution, and then drugs will be the only thing stopping that.

I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

In America, we've got to get back to these base principles of what democracy is.

Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.

We have to concentrate back on: Where is the money going? Where's it been going for the last thirty years? How do we start to redistribute the cake more evenly, and give people opportunities? That's as much about poor white people in West Virginia as it is about poor black people on the Southside of Chicago.