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“I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.”
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“The truth is, no matter what your lifestyle or occupation, nothing can really stop you when you're allowing yourself to be exactly who you want to be.”
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“Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.”
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“I believe it's in the best interests of a child to be in a stable environment.”
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“The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.”
Source : Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: Amish: The World's Squarest Teenagers" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2010. 
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“Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques.”
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“I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.”
Source : "Leslie Fiedler Dies at 85; Provocative Literary Critic" by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, www.nytimes.com. January 31, 2003.
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“All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter.”
