[Ecstasy] had its flaws, but again it was shot on a low budget, and they did well. It's not in the same league as Filth.

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

These days you can't write anybody off. If anybody is a right-wing populist, you can't write them off now because that is the rising tide of our time.

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

There is a kind of mysticism to writing.

I've always felt really good about England. I've always felt really, really good about Britain.

You know, people tend to get stereotyped for about forty percent of their behavior, so if you're completely crazy forty percent of the time you'll get stereotyped as crazy, even if you're totally boring thirty percent of the time and just studious the other thirty percent of the time.