“We kissed for a bit and I stopped shaking. We played with each other for a long time, and after we had joined, my cock and her fanny became one thing, then it seemed to vanish as we took off on a b...”

“Okay baby, let's take this rocket to Uranus. This hoor is perfect, and she can act as well.”

“Still, failure, success, what is it? Whae gies a fuck. We aw live, then we die, in quite a short space ay time n w. That's it; end ay fuckin story.”

“Ah remember walkin along Princes Street wi Spud, we both hate walkin along that hideous street, deadened by tourists and shoppers, the twin curse ay modern capitalism.”

“What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to powerI dont think we speak the truth to power for powers ear, but for the ear and the imagination of future generations...”

“Leave it man. Squirrels botherin nae cunt likesay! Ah hate it the wey Marks intae hurtin animals its wrong man. Ye cannae love yirsel if ye want tae hurt things like that ah mean what hope is thir?...”

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”

“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”