“Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.”

“Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.”

“If you even *need* a government, added Stig, "you are a life-form flawed beyond redemption.”

“...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.”

“Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.”

“...The verses of Byron, Keats or Poe are real whether they are in bootleg form or not. You can still read them for the same effect.”

“I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.”