Ben Elton

Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love with everything that he did not know about her... No real sexual encounter could ever match the secret one that he could nurture in his imagination... No living flesh could ever be the erotic equal of flesh kept private, untouchable and unknowable

To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.

I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed

They were the Saturday Club, a secret society of which only the four of them were aware and which none other could join.

Artists don't create society, they reflect it

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.

With privilege comes responsibility, you must understand that. People expect us to lead by example and we shall not disappoint them.