When you're in your twenties, it's the last time you have the chance to experiment with multiple identities, to decide who you're going to be in life.
Irvine WelshIf I stop working and publishing, and TV, and film and all that, I would be dead within a couple of weeks. I don't really have that kind of off-switch.
Irvine WelshMost people in the West are not politicized. They're the most simplistic consumers - they're animals, basically.
Irvine WelshIt's only now that I realize that behaviour always has a context and precedents, it's what you do rather than what you are, although we often never recognise that context or understand what these precedents are.
Irvine WelshI think that Europe has to get its act together very quickly. The Belgian guy who's leading the negotiations against Brexit, he sees it as a whole chance to reboot Europe and reclaim the kind of social mission of Europe from all this corporate, bureaucratic, globalist stuff that has got into, building Europe for the people rather than the banks, again.
Irvine Welsh