Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality.
Charlie BrookerWhenever anything nice happens in the world I always expect something appalling to happen immediately afterwards.
Charlie BrookerMost writers or performers walk around with the notion in their head that - a paranoid worry that maybe people don't like them.
Charlie BrookerI'm convinced no one actually likes clubs. It's a conspiracy. We've been told they're cool and fun; that only "saddoes" dislike them. And no one in our pathetic little pre-apocalyptic timebubble wants to be labelled "sad" - it's like being officially declared worthless by the state. So we muster a grin and go out on the town in our millions.
Charlie Brooker