“ Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells. Charlie Brooker
“ It's spider season. Every year, right about now, thousands of the godless eight-legged bastards emerge from the bowels of hell (or the garden, whichever's nearest) with the sole intention of tormentin… Charlie Brooker
“ If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. Charlie Brooker
“ ...we spend more time gazing at luminous screens than into the eyes of our loved ones. Charlie Brooker
“ One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough. Charlie Brooker
“ Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality. Charlie Brooker
“ Must be frustrating being a scientist. There you are, incrementally discovering how the universe works via a series of complex tests and experiments, for the benefit of all mankind - and what thanks d… Charlie Brooker
“ One of life's sorest tragedies is that the people who brim with confidence are always the wrong people. Charlie Brooker
“ Until recently, I was an ebook sceptic, see; one of those people who harrumphs about the “physical pleasure of turning actual pages” and how ebook will “never replace the real thing”. Then I was given… Charlie Brooker