"When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man."
- Anthony Burgess
"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."
"We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it."
"Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination."
"People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know."
"You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care."
"You have no cause to grumble boy. You made your choice and all this is a consequence of your choice. Whatever now ensues is what you yourself have chosen."
"Well, everything's a lesson, isn't it? Learning all the time, as you could say."
"The intention to act violently is accompanied by strong feelings of physical distress."
"And now, talking of praying, I realise sadly that there will be little point in praying for you. You are passing now to a region where you will be beyond the reach of the power of prayer."