I'm a Joke and So Are You: Reflections on Humour and Humanity

by Robin Ince

‘The stuff that is sitting on your bookshelf, that’s not art. The art only happens at the exact interface between the reader and the creator . .

have read just about enough about a large enough number of things to be wrong about nearly everything, but as long as I am in a room with people who don’t know I don’t know, I can look like I know something.

‘Can I be consistent? Being ethically consistent in this world is impossible. It can be more consistent to do fuck-all all the time . . . I’d rather be a well-meaning hypocrite than a consistent apathete.’