Ben Elton

This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence. ↗

— Ben Elton

#violence #vyvyan #humor

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear. ↗

— Ben Elton

#change

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it. ↗

— Ben Elton

#faith

People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves ↗

— Ben Elton

#poverty #money

My 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 Elton

#advice #again #anyone #away #learnt

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi. ↗

— Ben Elton

#collection #conversation #even #holding #natural

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count. ↗

— Ben Elton

#count #dependent #first #get #how

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven. ↗

— Ben Elton

#feel #heaven #intense #love #made

We'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 Elton

#believe #bother #got #group #i

Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s. ↗

— Ben Elton

#i wish #never #ok #perhaps #silly