Charlie Brooker Quotes
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If love were a product, the queue at the faulty goods desk would stretch right round the universe and back. It doesn't work properly. The seams come apart and it's full of powdered glass.
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The majority of people are perfectly capable of interacting with retail staff without spitting on them or whipping their hides like dawdling cattle, but Planet Earth still harbours more than its fair share of disappointments.
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'MasterChef''s preliminary stages deliver just the right level of almost-drama for viewers feeling shagged out after a hard day's fruitless existence.
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The upper classes really shouldn't open their mouths on television. Whatever it is they're saying, all your brain actually hears is 'Tra la la, I live in a bubble, tra la la, murder a fox, tra la la, Conde Nast Traveller, tra la la, Kensington High Street, tra la la.' They should know their place and keep quiet.
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When you meet people you've interacted with on social media, they are not like they are on social media.
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There's so much stuff flying around online, and it's so easy to get into arguments with people.
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Calling Batman 'the Dark Knight' is like calling Papa Smurf 'the Blue Patriarch':you're not fooling anyone.
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We're inseparable, games and I. If you cut me, I'd bleed pixels. Or blood. Probably blood, come to think of it.
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I do worry about civil unrest, or complete collapse of society, or having to flee, or Europe falling into a war.
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The fashion industry is an immense cultural and social blight that only gets a free pass because its would-be detractors are scared it'll start criticising their haircut.
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Actually, I think this might be an Al-Qaeda recruitment film.
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When you're being earnest, people think you're being sarcastic, and when you're being sarcastic, they think you're being earnest. The moral in all this, of course, is that people should never attempt to communicate.
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I can quickly go to a place where I worry about society spiralling out of control.
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He could probably make you a cloud sandwich if you asked. Or a blancmange made of numbers.
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Is hacking ever acceptable? It depends on the motive.
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Don't accuse anyone with the temerity to question your sad supernatural fantasies of having a 'closed mind' or being 'blind to possibilities'. A closed mind asks no questions, unthinkingly accepting that which it wants to believe. The blindness is all yours.'16
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If you're living in a dystopia, you don't necessarily want to look at another one.
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With Boris Johnson, you don't think of him as a politician, oddly. You think of him as a media personality because he's a comic character. He's basically Homer Simpson. That makes him strangely bullet-proof.
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That's certainly made me think. It's made me think I don't want a television any more.
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People always assume I went to public school, which I didn't, so that immediately puts me somewhere.
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The logical quandaries thrown up by well-meaning systems are clearly something that I find darkly amusing.
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I can't rank anything. I mean, how could anyone possibly say what their favourite piece of music is? I don't have the ability or the desire to categorise things of that nature.
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All Pixar movies are heartbreaking, aren't they?
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I'm not anti-technology at all, really.