Quotes from Louis Theroux

How odd, I thought, that even though I don't believe it still feels nice to be included.

It's an industry of lonely people in a crowd, Bill Margold was saying. 'They're scared to get close to each other. You're far better off having someone to sleep next to then having someone to sleep with because you have to trust someone you sleep next to.

Now, with no hate group to run, Jerry spent his days playing Mah-jong on his computer

Perhaps it's understandable to be more jaded on one's second exposure to something strange.

I suppose there won't be any Mexican food in the whites-only homeland,' I said. Hm, I'd never thought of that possibility' Jerry said. He paused. 'They wouldn't be allowed to vote but they could cook and clean for us. Afterall, we're not extremists.

I wasn't quite sure what I'd just seen, but I knew it was time for me to leave.

But people don't change their beliefs easily. Even when their deepest convictions are challenged - by the failure of the world to end, for example - they continue on their way, sticking to the old routine: they get back on their weird bikes and ride again.

But one didn't attach any more significance to these rumours than to the idea that a certain film star had a furry animal removed from his rectum

to find the comfort of friendliness and laughter in the dark.

liable to quote lyrics about the death of the campaigner Blair Peach during an anti-Nazi rally in London in the seventies and rant about oligarchic corruption in the US body politic.

On the list of qualities necessary to humans trying to make our way through life, truth scores fairly low. Why do people believe and do weird things? Because in the end, feeling alive is more important than telling the truth. We have evolved as living creatures to express ourselves, to be creative, to tell stories. We are instruments for feeling, faith, energy, emotion, significance, belief, but not really truth.

She said. I actually had my butt torn a few weeks ago. But it's like any job. You have good days and bad days.

But in fact every act of power involves a kind of negotiation. By giving a little, you are inviting more trespasses, putting yourself in more danger.

groupuscules making their lonely cataclysmic prophesies.

Alcohol, for those addicted to it, is a kind of infatuation. It ends up displacing other relationships, becoming inseparable from your sense of who you are until a better, longer life no longer seems possible.

If I were accountable for every passing thought I had, I'd be in deep trouble.

I'm not pugnacious or argumentative. I'd probably feel fear going into a pub in the Outback.

Celebrity is quite a fraught word. It is not something I aspire to, but I can certainly see why it could be.

A lot of money could be saved if we ate urban wildlife.

'Cunnamulla' is a beautifully bleak portrait of a lonely town in which people are leading lives of sort of quiet desperation.

I don't go around saturated in guilt or anything like that. I do worry about things quite a lot, but I don't feel as though I am a bad person.

I am genuinely a bit confused about the world, a little bit bumbling.

I sometimes get accused of being 'faux-naive,' but for me, it's really just about getting down to the basics of something.

You can talk to someone relatively famous, and they say, 'What do you do? What do you do for a job?' and I say, 'I make documentaries for the BBC,' and you see their eyes just glaze over.