Quotes from Charlie Brooker

I have often felt the worlds of social media and the Internet are like a weird dreamscape. Even physically, when you are looking at your phone, you are out of it.

I've never lost that freelance mentality. You can't take a holiday because you're worried the work will dry up.

I'm scared about everything. I'm an anxious worrier. I worry about the downside of everything.

The entire economy relies on the suspension of disbelief. So does a fairy story or an animated cartoon. This means that no matter how soberly the financial experts dress, no matter how dry their language, the economy they worship can only ever be as plausible as an episode of 'SpongeBob SquarePants.'

Technology is a tool that has allowed us to swipe around like an angry toddler.

I remember I was changing to one phone from another and going through my old contact details, and so I was having to delete duplicate numbers to make room, and up came the name of someone who died, and... it felt hard to delete the name.

'MasterChef' delivers all the reassuring, cadenced repetition of an endless chore without any of the bothersome elbow grease.

The fashion industry is an immense cultural and social blight that only gets a free pass because its would-be detractors are scared it'll start criticising their haircut.

Nothing happens in cricket, ever. Even the highlights resemble a freeze frame.

We're inseparable, games and I. If you cut me, I'd bleed pixels. Or blood. Probably blood, come to think of it.

New Year's resolutions work like this: you think of something you enjoy doing and then resolve to stop doing it.

Our metropolises are blighted by two problems: a lack of public transport and a lack of public loos.

I've scaled back my involvement with Twitter; it's too easy to get dragged into an argument.

Amplifying body-image issues, profiting from anxiety, and employing virtual slaves in sweatshops are bad enough, but the fashion industry is also actively hastening the destruction of the very Earth we walk on. It insists on launching fresh collections each season, declaring yesterday's range obsolete on a whim.

My brain knows best-before dates are a con; my panicky gut treats them like a nuclear countdown.

There are different groups of people in your life that you behave slightly differently with. You behave one way with your family. You behave in a different way with your work colleagues. You behave differently with your friends from the movie club, your fitness instructor - all subtly different personas.

My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle.

Ever since about 1998, when humankind began fast-forwarding through the gradually-unfolding history of progress, like someone impatiently zipping through a YouTube clip in search of the best bits, we've grown accustomed to machines veering from essential to obsolete in the blink of a trimester.

Brexit is a harbinger for Trump, really.

When you meet people you've interacted with on social media, they are not like they are on social media.

I'm looking forward to the 'Twilight Zone' from Jordan Peele... if anyone's gonna reboot the 'Twilight Zone,' then there's the man to do it.

'The Twilight Zone' was sometimes shockingly cruel, far crueller than most TV drama today would dare to be.

I liked that sort of thing, those one-off stories like 'Tales of the Unexpected,' 'Hammer House of Horror,' 'The Twilight Zone' and 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents.'

I remember when I realised, as a child, 'That stuff on the TV about nuclear bombs is real! Why isn't everyone running around shouting 'Aaarrgghh'? Why are people still buying bicycle clips?'