“We'll look back and wonder who were these barbarous people, just like we look back at those who supported bull-baiting”

Teenage Dream, written by Katy Perry, Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Benjamin Levin, and Bonnie McKee
Song lyrics, Teenage Dream (2010)

Afterword to The Dud Avocado (2006)
Context: I look back in wonder at The Dud Avocado: in wonder at its initial reception and at the many times it’s been reissued — for years it was even republished alongside of every new book of mine that came out. I look back in wonder at the 1950s. The dull conformity of those years as they are generally imagined is something I don’t recognize. I look back in wonder at London in particular, where whole areas destroyed during the Second World War still lay in rubble. But London was in the midst of a renaissance for artists. In literature and playwriting the Angry Young Men were making their splash and new young actors like Richard Burton, Peter O Toole, Albert Finney, and Peter Finch were coming into their own. London was an orderly place where it was safe to take risks. Optimism was the rule of the day and I was there.

Mock the Week

Said on a television show, cited in Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals (New York: Ballantine Books, 2004. ISBN 0-345-45282-8, ch. 1, p. 22 https://books.google.it/books?id=RbxeFLpNnxUC&pg=PA22.

Smoke Signals (1998)

Source: The Downing Street Years (1993), p. 658

Ask Agnetha No. 15, Agnetha Fältskog's YouTube channel (AgnethaOfficial), 16 May 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTKhvSKfMYs

Sam Harris, In Defense of Profiling http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/in-defense-of-profiling (April 28, 2012)
2010s

Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
Context: p>Just being alive
It can really hurt
These moments given
Are a gift from time.Just let us try
To give these moments back
To those we love
To those who will survive…</p