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“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”
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“A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.”
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“If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.”
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“A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.”
Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.
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“Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without”
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“Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.”
Source : "Satires". Book by Juvenal, edited by A. E. Housman, p. XI, 1931.
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“If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.”
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“The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'”
Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial
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“People should be left to believe what they like, so long as they harm no one else. Apart from normal expectations of politeness, it is not however clear why people should require their personal beliefs to be treated with special sensitivity by others, to the point that if others fail to tip-toe respectfully around them they will start throwing bombs.”
Source : A. C. Grayling (2004). “Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God”, p.130, Oxford University Press, USA
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“I wanted to make a film that gave the people who took LSD at that time the hallucinations that you get with that drug, but without hallucinating,”
