"The danger of memory is that it can turn anyone into a prophet."
- Anthony Burgess
"Badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old Bog or God and is his great pride and radosty. But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of t..."
"By definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange - meaning that ..."
"Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up."
"A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth."
"Minister: As I was saying, Alex, you can be instrumental in changing the public verdict. Do you understand, Alex? Have I made myself clear?Alex: As an unmuddied lake, Fred. As clear as an azure sky of..."
"Then there was like quiet and we were full of like hate, so smashed what was left to be smashed."
"I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias."
"It is for the reader to see in the book the nature of the motives of human actions and perhaps learn something too of the motives behind the social forces which judge those actions and which, I take i..."
"We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will."