The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse.

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

Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy.

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.

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.