Steve Aylett

“Since childhood I’d been suspected of imagination”

“We have truth in order not to die of art.”

“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”

“A key and a strangler - this is all a simple tale requires.”

“Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader’s senses”

“I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.”

“Stab me if you can enjoy it - but not if it feels like a duty. Stab me vertically if I’m lying down and horizontally if I’m running”

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

“a story is ready when it falls from your face”

“From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails”