Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting…

- A. A. Gill

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead …

- A. A. Gill

Making a programme that appears to condone a positive stereotype actually enforces all the negative ones as well. It says that they all have a valid …

- A. A. Gill

A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor'…

- A. A. Gill

The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to…

- A. A. Gill

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

- A. A. Gill

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are g…

- A. A. Gill

Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the goo…

- A. A. Gill

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it.…

- A. A. Gill