In comedy writing, a sitcom plot is basically the same thing: What's the worst thing that could happen? But you're playing it for comic effect. It's a similar muscle being used with Black Mirror.

If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?

The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.

My theory is that we used to have several personalities, and now we're encouraged to have one online.

Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.

That's not something that we've gone in thinking 'Right! How are we going to examine that now?' It's just when you take a step back you see that they're actually all sort of in that mode.

Whenever anything nice happens in the world I always expect something appalling to happen immediately afterwards.

I'm actually quite pro-technology, but I'm a worrier, so I like to envision worst-case scenarios.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.

In summary, our world is doomed.

The Lesson is Life and Life is the Lesson, and the Lesson does not contain a single Atom.

We were revisionists

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.

We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.

I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an illustrator is always in support of the story.

An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity.

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

...on forever's very now we stand.

I would be screwed if I got hurt on my motorcycle and couldn't wrestle.

Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.