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.

This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it.

But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it's cold outside. But it's not the cold's fault that it's cold.

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

As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

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