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When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.

I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.

People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics.

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.

Politics organizes our lives. We can't disregard it. Politics has lot of muck, lot of dirt. But that doesn't mean you have to be away from it. It's ubiquitous.