Life is, of course, terrible.

But we were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure.

Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If we take anything with us into the next world, it is not what survives in the memories of our relicts.

The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" intro to first full American version 1986

Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free.

I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.