Quotes from book
Stark

Name: Stark
Author: Ben Elton

Stark is a 1989 novel by comedian Ben Elton. It was commercially and critically successful in the United Kingdom and Australia. It was Elton's first novel, and launched his writing career. Stark was reprinted 23 times in its first year, and ultimately sold well over a million copies, making Elton one of a small number of novelists to sell more than a million copies of their first book. The novel was adapted into Stark, a television miniseries.

“The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.”

Ben Elton book Stark

"Court, Hippies and Love at First Sight"
Stark (1989)

“No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.”

Ben Elton book Stark

"Airport Rescue"
Stark (1989)

“The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.”

Ben Elton book Stark

"Dinner in Los Angeles"
Stark (1989)