Quotes from Steve Aylett

to him Marx and Rand were the same because he went by pant size

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

Murder's the taking of one man's life by another - war's the other way around.

He said he didn't like my kind and I was filled with the delirious expectation that he would identify me as a common species - that there were others like myself. I controlled my excitement, but he seemed to sense it - his gaze wavered uncertainly.

Those who lead double lives do so because they can only count that far

I crept in to find my father with pennies on his eyes - and looking closer I saw they were made of foil-covered chocolate. Of course I stole and ate them. Magical guilt? Tell me about it

He had long been curious at leaders intermittent calls for a return to past values and had tested the notion by trying to build a house from the sky downwards

Used a replica gun to steal a replica sportscar and experienced a replica of remorse

His clients ranged from the IRS to the mob.On one occasion the oil industry hired him to kill the inventor of a car which was fueled by depression. The moguls didn't know how to profit from such a cheap and abundant resource.

It's hard for people to stampede when they're strutting

In books there's nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business.

Eddie knelt and lifted a rock. 'Lawyers,' he whispered.

Any act worth a damn can not be ignored and when an effective person is ignored it's the result of a deliberate series of steps on his or her part.

There's no such thing as a normal angel. It's never done that way.

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

Originality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it.

The law is where reality goes to die.

Like snowflakes, no two fistfights are the same.

carved dolls stick to the rules.

Life and death have equal authority in nature. When laws contradict so fundamentally they cause mere confusion in the average soul

Looking at this town with an honest eye was like biting into candy with a mouthful of cavities.

Never refer to a large dog as a friend - he is in custody and he knows it.

Honesty is the voice that is acceptable in every matter.

Freedom in cyberspace'd be fine and dandy if we happened to live there.