Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.

If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.

Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

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

I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.