The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
BEN ELTONThe earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
BEN ELTONI’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
BEN ELTONMy advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they’ve read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
BEN ELTONI don’t know what people who I’ve never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things – but I’m proud of the fact I’ve remained close to everyone I’ve ever worked with.
BEN ELTONThe Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
BEN ELTONIf I did things for the money, I’d have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and ‘Police Academy 6,’ which I was asked to write.
BEN ELTONI resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we’re losing rather than a celebration of what we have.
BEN ELTONI think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
BEN ELTONThe appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
BEN ELTONKingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not. The heart was no more than a muscle, a pump which distributed blood about the body.
BEN ELTONPeople who get through life dependent on other people’s possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
BEN ELTONAnd roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
BEN ELTONLeaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
BEN ELTONYou’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
BEN ELTONYou didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
BEN ELTONYes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I’d never used it. I’m 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
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