Optimist Sees Quotes by Steve Aylett

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

— Steve Aylett

“Seemed she should learn to smile when she was unhappy, to stop laughing, to speak up, to never speak to strangers, to share guilt…

— Steve Aylett

“The clerk tripped on the carpet, hit a window and went through, carrying with him a vase which had been on the sill. His…

— Steve Aylett

“[...] god's cowardly, it doesn't want to know or take responsibility for what it's doing.”

— Steve Aylett

“Any act worth a damn can not be ignored and when an effective person is ignored it’s the result of a deliberate series of…

— Steve Aylett

Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised.

— Steve Aylett

In America, fundamentalist Christians believe the world was created 6,000 years ago - in England people drink in bars that are older than that.

— Steve Aylett

“Life and death have equal authority in nature. When laws contradict so fundamentally they cause mere confusion in the average soul ”

— Steve Aylett

“The trustiest rule of social disintegration: bars burn last.”

— Steve Aylett

Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other.

— Steve Aylett

“We are a mirror to show god it's cruelty.”

— Steve Aylett

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

— Steve Aylett

“Those who lead double lives do so because they can only count that far”

— Steve Aylett

“The most amusing thing about a pantomime horse is the necessity of having to shoot it twice.”

— Steve Aylett

“On July 13, 1994, Lint had a near-death experience, followed immediately by death.”

— Steve Aylett