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.

Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers.

It wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed.

It's all been quite a revitalizing process for me, being out there in the States. It wouldn't have happened without Trainspotting.

You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.

We have to accept that capitalism is coming to an end. We can't provide paid employment for people, all the industries with technology are counter-intuitive to profit, and we have to have a transition to the conceptualist society. The only way to do it fairly is as a social democracy, a radical social democracy, which isn't compromised by neo-liberalism and isn't compromised by the rich, and isn't compromised by hegemonic, authoritarian interests: to have that balance between the government, the private sector, and then the individual citizens again.

If there's very strong civic unrest you can see a strong party of the Right emerging, whether it's UKIP [The UK Independence Party] or an even further-right party.