Seth > Seth's Quotes

“One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of god’s existence.”
― Steve Aylett, Atom

“The most amusing thing about a pantomime horse is the necessity of having to shoot it twice.”
― Steve Aylett, Bigot Hall: A Gothic Childhood

“Painkillers are the drugs of the future”
― Steve Aylett, Slaughtermatic

“One thing you’ll say for skeletons, they’ll always give you a smile.”
― Steve Aylett, Slaughtermatic

“Crime is one of the many methods justice may select.”
― Steve Aylett, Slaughtermatic

“Nothing like a spider in the mouth to get you thinking.
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― Steve Aylett, The Inflatable Volunteer

“How many times does a man have to shave before his chin gets the message?
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― Steve Aylett, Slaughtermatic

“It’s hard for people to stampede when they’re strutting”
― Steve Aylett, Shamanspace

“Never refer to a large dog as a friend - he is in custody and he knows it.”
― Steve Aylett

“A sniper is like a genius - it’s not enough to be one, you have to be one at something.”
― Steve Aylett, Slaughtermatic

“In books there’s nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business.”
― Steve Aylett, The Inflatable Volunteer

“Eddie knelt and lifted a rock. ‘Lawyers,’ he whispered.”
― Steve Aylett, The Inflatable Volunteer

“Sanity’s a virginity of the mind
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― Steve Aylett, Atom

“Honesty is the voice that is acceptable in every matter.”
― Steve Aylett, Shamanspace

“The trustiest rule of social disintegration: bars burn last.”
― Steve Aylett, Slaughtermatic

“No matter how good the idea, there’s always an advocate extreme enough to deter people.”
― Steve Aylett

“The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.”
― 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 steps on his or her part.”
― Steve Aylett, Slaughtermatic

“There’s no such thing as a normal angel. It’s never done that way.”
― Steve Aylett, Atom

“Freedom in cyberspace’d be fine and dandy if we happened to live there.”
― Steve Aylett, Slaughtermatic

“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, Slaughtermatic

“Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised.”
― Steve Aylett, Slaughtermatic

“A society will manufacture an image of progress and locate it in the direction it wishes to take us.”
― Steve Aylett, Shamanspace

“The best way of getting into something is to think of it as mischief.”
― Steve Aylett, The Crime Studio

“...to him Marx and Rand were the same because he went by pant size”
― Steve Aylett, Toxicology

“Oppression evolves, like everything else.”
― Steve Aylett, Toxicology

“The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity.”
― Steve Aylett, Toxicology

“A hundred percent of marriages end in divorce, disappearance or death.”
― Steve Aylett, Toxicology

“Murder’s the taking of one man’s life by another - war’s the other way around.”
― Steve Aylett, Slaughtermatic

“Originality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it.”
― Steve Aylett, Shamanspace