As children everyone thinks their family is weird and they're upset by the weirdness of their own family.

There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.

Part of life is learning what to be ashamed of and what to be proud of.

...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

Mind you, Mount Rushmore isn't exactly the Parthenon or the Sistine Chapel either. After the naïve daftness of the Crazy Horse monument, I find the pompous idiocy of those four presidents somehow more risible still. Wishing to show respect or feel a vicarious thrill of admiration and pride, I can only giggle. For which I am very sorry. Any loyal American reading this who feels outraged and insulted is free to explode with derisive snorts of laughter at any British equivalent.

It may be that there is an afterlife and I'll look incredibly stupid, but at least I will have had a crammed pre afterlife, a crammed life, so to me the most important thing is you know as Kipling put it. [...] To fill every unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run.