In America, fundamentalist Christians believe the world was created 6,000 years ago - in England people drink in bars that are older than that.

A society will manufacture an image of progress and locate it in the direction it wishes to take us.

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

How many times does a man have to shave before his chin gets the message?

Satire 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.

Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other.

The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity.