"The duty sergeant was going through his routine of asking each brawling set of prisoners who the Billy and who the Ti…"

"Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather."

"Ah jist shrugged, -- Well, as one anarchist plumber sais tae the other: smash the cistern."

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

"There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much …"

"That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no deny…"

"Ah've never felt anything about countries, other than total disgust. They should fuckin abolish the lot of them. Kill…"

"He died a hero they sais. Ah remember that song: Billy Don't Be A Hero. In fact, he died a spare prick in uniform, wa…"

"That cunt Nietzsche wis wide ay the mark whin he sais ah wis deid. Ah'm no deid; ah jist dinnae gie a fuck. It's no f…"

"The only people that ever made a difference to Billy were the Provos, and they were cunts as well. Ah've no illusions…"