Quotes from Steve Aylett

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

Honesty is the voice that is acceptable in every matter.

He has been positively growing tusks trying to create a breed of human insect which will continue to live on this accursed planet. Everyone needs a goal.

We have truth in order not to die of art.

What happens when the hitcher and the driver are equally murderous?

One thing you'll say for skeletons, they'll always give you a smile.

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

The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.

Sanity's a virginity of the mind

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

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

What's life in this nation? Collect emptiness in a household of cornflakes. Transient fuel gobbles attention, the television aches, the truth walks. Scheme worms welcome your corpse, trap clicks and you're in heaven, bored rigid

What happens when the hitcher and the driver are equally murderous?

Since childhood I'd been suspected of imagination

No matter how good the idea, there's always an advocate extreme enough to deter people.

Seemed she should learn to smile when she was unhappy, to stop laughing, to speak up, to never speak to strangers, to share guilt for the acts of strangers, that strangers made the laws of the land, that the laws of the land valued things over life, that life ended if a stranger decided it, to be where she could be found, to feel one thing and do another. How could she hang so many contradictions in one skull

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

A hundred percent of marriages end in divorce, disappearance or death.

Hang up the phone on a vampire, the definition of carefree.

I owed no morality to those who would extort it by force

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

One thing you'll say for skeletons, they'll always give you a smile.

Gun stripping is the tea ceremony of America.

Dreams always end before you kill the last person.