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

- 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

What’s life in this nation? Collect emptiness in a household of cornflakes. Transient fuel gobbles attention, the television aches, the truth walks. …

- Steve Aylett

The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.

- Steve Aylett

Originality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it.

- Steve Aylett

Sanity’s a virginity of the mind

- Steve Aylett

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

- Steve Aylett

Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog's repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing …

- Steve Aylett

One thing you’ll say for skeletons, they’ll always give you a smile.

- Steve Aylett