In America, fundamentalist Christians believe the world was created 6,000 years ago - in England people drink in bars that are older than that.
Steve AylettSatire works in a bunch of specific ways, like a very precisely-geared bomb. It's a bit like something that looks harmless, and you swallow it, but once it's inside you it's too late, and it triggers, blowing up. And it's your specific inner beliefs and faulty arguments that trigger a satire bomb. If your arguments work, the bomb doesn't trigger, it doesn't need to.
Steve AylettThe most amusing thing about a pantomime horse is the necessity of having to shoot it twice.
Steve AylettA sniper is like a genius - it’s not enough to be one, you have to be one at something.
Steve AylettIt’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.
Steve Aylett