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

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.