"An experience is richest not talked of."

"A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia."

"How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters."

"Disapproving of things is all right. But you mustn't disapprove of people. It cuts you off."

"Waiting in fear is surely one of the most awful of human tribulations."

"We brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out."

"When I'm up to something I find it very hard to realize that I probably look no different from the way I look on other occasions."

"You know what. You've killed me and sent me to hell, and you must descend to the underworld to find me and make me live again. If you don't come for me, I'll become a demon and drag you down into the dark."

"But to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right."

"Happy is the civilization which can breed men accustomed from infancy to regard certain at least of the ego's natural activities as unthinkable."

"You imagine that to live in a state of extremity is necessarily to discover the truth about yourself. What you discover then is violence and emptiness. And of this you make a virtue."

"The exercise of power is a dangerous delight."

"How mysterious night and day are, this endless procession off dark and light....I think such sad thoughts - of people in trouble and afraid, all lonely people all prisoners."

"He dreamt...he was a huge white egg floating in the sea of turquoise blue, and he was everything that there was."

"I'm the absolute queen bee of unrequited love."

"There are no spare unrecorded encapsulated moments in which we can behave 'anyhow' and then expect to resume life where we left off."

"Love is no respecter of ages, everyone knows that."

"To overthrow a tyrant, whether in public or in private, one must learn to hate."

"The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and suffer and miss their trains."

"Never seen the sea! How could anyone not have seen the sea? Surely the sea must somehow belong to the happiness of every child."

"Good art shows us how difficult it is to be objective by showing us how differently the world looks to an objective vision."

"But death is not easy, and life can win by simulating it."

"You can't lie to your soul."

"By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be."

"I'm not running away, I'm moving on."

"Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them."

"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."

"You were what you were and you are what you are. Fuck that regrets bullshit."

"Mates are a waste of fucking time. They are always ready to drag you down tae their level of social, sexual and intellectual mediocrity."

"This is what being alive's all about, all those fucked up feelings. You've got to have them; when you stop, watch out."

"His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with."

"When two people were in love you had to leave them to it. Especially when you weren't in love and wished that you were. That could embarrass. That could hurt."

"Now there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism."

"Everything in the street today seems soft focus."

"Aye Oedipus, yir a complex fucker right enough"

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

"Now, for the first time, he's seeing that there really is a way out of this, and it's all so simple. You don't have to run away. You just meet somebody special and step sideways into a parallel universe."

"Same rules apply."

"Thir must be less tae life than this"

"Don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another"

"Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence."

"The fact that you use the term "cunt" in the same breath as "sexist", shows that you display the same muddled, fucked-up thinking oan this issue as you do oan everything else."

"But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even."

"I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination."

"Take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin miles off the pace"

"It's easy tae be philosophical when some other cunt's got shite fir blood."

"How did it make you feel?"

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

"When I get home I take some sleeping pills and within what seemed like half an hour of unconsciousness it was Monday morning again."

"It’s all okay, it’s all beautiful; but ah fear that this internal sea is gaunnae subside soon, leaving this poisonous shite washed up, stranded up in ma body."