If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in observing the depths to which human behaviour can sink. The more sin he sees, the more his belief in Original Sin is confirmed. Everyone likes to have his deepest convictions confirmed; that is one of the most abiding of human satisfaction.

Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.

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

You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do.