'The Twilight Zone' was sometimes shockingly cruel, far crueller than most TV drama today would dare to be.

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• Charlie Brooker:

  People tend to think I'm a lot more earnest than I am.

• Charlie Brooker:

  When you're being earnest, people think you're being sarcastic, and when you're being sarcastic, th

• Charlie Brooker:

  At 16, I was drawing cartoons, and I wanted to carry on being a cartoonist.

• Charlie Brooker:

  The sole purpose of a crown is to make anyone not wearing one feel like an insignificant pauper. Th

• Charlie Brooker:

  Tinder is the ultimate gamification of romance. It's 'Pokemon Go' for the heart.

• Charlie Brooker:

  I've scaled back my involvement with Twitter; it's too easy to get dragged into an argument.

• Charlie Brooker:

  Is hacking ever acceptable? It depends on the motive.

• Charlie Brooker:

  I liked that sort of thing, those one-off stories like 'Tales of the Unexpected,' 'Hammer House of

• Charlie Brooker:

  I'm not anti-technology at all, really.

• Charlie Brooker:

  Videogames are probably my first love.