76 Quotes by Richard Ayoade

So I’ve tried to make this book as dense as possible, like a neutron star. And if you think I came up with that simile by googling ‘What stuff is most dense?’, you’d be wrong. I already knew neutron stars were maybe dense before I googled it to make sure.

Heroes hate wasting time. ‘You’re wasting my time,’ they’ll say. Yet they devote very little time to time management, and rarely consult a diary.

The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if it's the classic Hitchcock shot of two people talking and a bomb being under the table. Part of the pleasure of it is seeing where people go wrong, and the irony of situations.

I'm not good at watching myself.