We have truth in order not to die of art.

The most amusing thing about a pantomime horse is the necessity of having to shoot it twice.

One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of God's existence.

From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails

Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog's repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people's earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive

Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised.

It’s a shame, sort of a waste, that most people are influenced by what the newspaper supplements tell them is the book they are meant to be seen reading this year. It seems like those people aren’t really interested in books. If you’re really into books, you havoc all over the place picking up disparate stuff which you devour hungrily, and the ‘selection’ process is more like a sixth sense hunger, a billion miles away from fashion.