Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it.

What's it going to be then, eh?

There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.