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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

perhaps unrealistic expectations were being invested

Even evil bastards like Frank Begbie probabably attained an angelic innocence when they were out for the count.

Mel hilariously tries tae look a bit demure, but ah clock her shootin Bobby the glance a closing-time drunk gies a fish supper.

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.

There's a set of VPLs (visible panty lines) on the chicky in front ay us, and all my concentration is required to ensure a thorough examination can be undertaken.

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.

It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.

Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.

Scientific method, hell! No wonder the Galaxy was going to pot.

It lacks glamour? - It lacks mob emotion-appeal. - Same thing.

You are a practical man, Elijah. You do not moon romantically over Earth's past, despite your healthy interest in it. Nor do you stubbornly embrace the City culture of Earth's present day. We felt that people such as yourself were the ones that could lead Earthmen to the stars once more.

It amounts to a diseased attitude—a conditioned reflex that shunts aside the independence of your minds whenever it is a question of opposing authority.

The religion we have is our all-important instrument towards that end. With it we have brought the Four Kingdoms under our control, even at the moment when they would have crushed us. It is the most potent device known with which to control men and worlds.