And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.
BEN ELTONAnd of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.
BEN ELTONFor the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you’ll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.
BEN ELTONAnd roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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 ELTONArtists don’t create society, they reflect it
BEN ELTONThe Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
BEN ELTONYou didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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 ELTONComedy will always be central to what I do, it’s just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
BEN ELTONWe’ve all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that’s all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it’s just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
BEN ELTONThe appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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 did not vote Labour because they’ve heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.
BEN ELTONBooks are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.
BEN ELTONLeaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
BEN ELTONI think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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