Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.

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

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

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

What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art.

This truth may be handled either sinfully or profitably; sinfully as when it is treated on only to satisfy curiosity, and to keep up a mere barren speculative dispute.... This point of election... is not to be agitated in a verbal and contentious way, but in a saving way, to make us tremble and to set us upon a more diligent and close striving with God in prayer, and all other duties.

Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.