Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
The genre of science fiction is a fun house, an amusement park ride, but it's also a problem. The question that's always being indirectly asked is this: 'Just who do we think we are and, further, who do we want to be?'
My friends and I often film videos when we get together and hang out, and they're usually just silly situational videos just for our own amusement.
Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.
Ryan Murphy, he basically tries to find something that's a pulse, a pressure point in our culture, and he grabs it, and he squeezes it. I think 'Freak Show' has a lot to do with the entertainment industry and the way we entertain ourselves: the objectification of people and the lengths we'll go for our own amusement.
We fear the arrival of immigrants that we have drawn here with the wealth we stole from them. For much of the rest of the world we must be the focus of bitter amusement, characters in a satire we don't understand. It is British people that don't learn languages, or British history. Britain is the true scrounger, the true criminal.
I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.
