15 Quotes by Colin Bennett

... the problem here is that in the 20th century we have lost the relationship between imagination and fact.

Don't you ever imagine?""What's the imagination got to do with anything?""It's better than your ever increasing accuracies. They're as phoney as silicon boobs. Like proper tits, inaccuracies are much more entertaining.

Quite hypnotising a somewhat popeyed circle, he declared that there was no such thing as fantasy. There was a scale of illusions, declared he, which could be more or less solid according to the way they were sold.

Human legs, Annie, are always too short, toes never fit, and people are thankfully almost always totally preoccupied with either subversion, defiance or escape.

... implicit political coercion now has its headquarters and operations deep in the quiet anonymous software systems of the planet.

Like any decent reconaissance agent, he had fought his way into trouble in order to fight his way out

One thing is sure. Entertainment is important. Without it, the entire human race would go mad within a matter of hours.

All the great sages of history have made the same mistake. They think people want work, tasks, direction. What people really want is entertainment

Cruelty could be designed-out. It's advertising is deficient.