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One reward of living in hell is a certain kind of courage. I do not fear anything, certainly not morality, or your foul fantasies either.

Arnold's 'joke' was too obscenely good not to be taken as a portent: it was the visible part of some huge invisible horror.

Do you think she'll change? Hope nothing. Is there a cure? Only art. Or more love. I should die of more love.

éclat. Sadie had éclat; or so the public thought, though personally

Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines us mair accurately in a single sentence than all the others have ever done.

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

But ah cannae even endorse these sentiments as they are at best peripheral tae the moment.

On the issue of drugs, we wir classical liberals, vehemently opposed tae state intervention in any form.

Gillman smiles, in the cold manner of an assassin. It's like looking in the mirror.

I reach into my bag and I pull out my claw hammer.

Ah don't hate the English. They're just wankers. We are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture to be colonised by. No. We're ruled by effete arseholes. What does that make us?

In Scotland we've been exporting every straight cunt tae Canada fir generations. Result? They're boring fuckers, and we're a drug-addled underclass.

Everybody talks about being a writer, angel. If every novel conceived on a bar stool made it into print, there wood not be one tree left standing on God's green Earth.

They don't understand the type of world we're living in now, all those menaced souls clamouring for attention and recognition.

There's nae reasoning wi some cats. You say 'reason', they mew 'treason'. Ken?

Might huv ehs ma's brains, cause ay his heid taperin backwards intae a point like a fuckin alien.

Awright Al? I asked him. A silly question really. Convention always imposes its lunacy on us at such inappropriate times.

This cunt's allergic tae water, especially if ye mix it wi fucking soap.

His eyes wir crystal clear and treacherous, untainted by conscience or compassion.

perhaps unrealistic expectations were being invested

Even for Terminator 2, perennially in my DVD player, which is the finest film ever fucking made, and one of the best feminist movies of all time.

Perhaps you could not find such godless, such ruthless and such materialist people as clergy.

Cardinal Giovanni still did not like delicate matters; they were usually painful.

Hazen had already begun to mix her a martini. She watched approvingly. "Martinis make everything worthwhile, don't they?" she said, smiling at Strand.