Irvine Welsh Quotes

Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo.

I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.

There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you seem to know the future in them. Well, this is because these other worlds where two things can happen spread out from our world like rainbows, and sort of flow into one another-

I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married a fat man and the other stayed here.

I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.

There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface.

Time itself is talked about as something that is unusual, that there could be a parallel time.

I love J. G. Ballard. I love authors who take the world as we know it and just tweak one thing and say, 'What if the world were like this?'

It's like suddenly the canvas of my life has been cleared, and a completely new picture is painted. That's how I've been feeling ever since 'Sacred Games' was streamed.

I've always had a real interest in the way that science fiction can portray a world that could be different to our world, which I find a really exciting thought.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

In another universe I probably came out OK, ended up with mad novias and jobs and a sea of love in which to swim, but in this world I had a brother who was dying of cancer and a long dark patch of life like a mile of black ice waiting for me up ahead.

Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.

In the parallel universe the laws of physics are suspended. What goes up does not necessarily come down, a body at rest does not tend to stay at rest and not every action can be counted on to provoke an equal and opposite reaction. Time, 'too, is different. It may run in circles, flow backward, skip about from now to then. The very arrangement of molecules is fluid: Tables can be clocks, faces, flowers.

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.

There is a world elsewhere.

Going from Giraud to Moebius, I twisted the strip; changed dimensions. I was the same and yet someone else. Moebius is the result of my duality.

Whatever you choose, your choice will mean there are two new worlds. And perhaps sometimes, on the edge of sleep, we will see the shadow of the other world. There will be no unhappy memories.

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

Siry answered with one simple, shattering word. "Veelox.

I'll live in another world, then.

I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.

There is another world for all that live and move-a better one!

There is a world inside the world.