Top 50 Quotes by Alexei Sayle

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

I always thought communism was crap, really.

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

The journalists have obviously failed to capture my innate magnetism, humour and charisma, and they all need to be fired from their newspapers right away.

I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff.

I'm distinct, really.

I feel sorry for many politicians... we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.

I'm still fiercely ambitious.