Overall, looking at the stories [Black Mirror], almost every story we've ever done is concerned with authenticity or reality in some way.

If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?

The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.

My theory is that we used to have several personalities, and now we're encouraged to have one online.

Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.

That's not something that we've gone in thinking 'Right! How are we going to examine that now?' It's just when you take a step back you see that they're actually all sort of in that mode.

Whenever anything nice happens in the world I always expect something appalling to happen immediately afterwards.

I'm actually quite pro-technology, but I'm a worrier, so I like to envision worst-case scenarios.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.

In summary, our world is doomed.

[Sheehan] deserves some consideration, and I think that should have been done right from the beginning.

I'm a lot more grounded now, a lot more settled in my skin.

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

My friends are my second family. Sometimes friends can understand my problem but my family can't.

The snake will always bite back.

I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

On any given day, in any given moment, something could happen that opens up for you an entirely new path. Be still, be alert, be ready.

Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power.

The stars will wheel forth from their daytime hiding places; and one of those lights, slightly brighter than the rest, will be my wingtip passing over.