All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the CAUSE of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. They don't go into what is the cause of GOODNESS, so why of the other shop?

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

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

Every dogma has its day.