We're so saturated with propaganda every way you look that we don't notice it. But when it isn't there, you notice.

Sane, normal people don't need power trips. So the lunatics end up in charge of everything.

Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.

Success is like a fart - only your own smells nice.

The fact that some religious fanatics might support a theory doesn't invalidate it, anymore than the concurrence of UFO abduction cults invalidates the notion of extra-terrestrial life.

On Earth they've forgotten how to make everything except money. But what good is it, if there's nothing worthwhile left to buy?

Interference between universes at the quantum level means that information transfer takes place between them.

Evil is abstract but existent. It's a negativity: untruth, dishonesty, abuse of trust. Evil, for us, isn't in-built - into people, into the cosmic scheme, but is a violation.

Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.

We are defined by how we use our power.

Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.

My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, my left is wavering. The situation is excellent. I shall attack!

Look, none of the artists who I admire or respect have ever shied away from a role because it might make them unpopular with somebody.

Success comes from the ability to view each arising problem as an opportunity for self improvement.

Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste

Better to have an enemy who slaps you in the face than a friend who stabs you in the back.