Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.
The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.
I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.
Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.
It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.
Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.
Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.
Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.
Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.
The book I am best known for, or only known for, is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: written a quarter of a century ago, a jeu d'esprit knocked off for money in three weeks, it became known as the raw material for a film which seemed to glorify sex and violence. The film made it easy for readers of the book to misunderstand what it was about, and the misunderstanding will pursue me till I die. I should not have written the book because of this danger of misinterpretation.
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.
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.
...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.
Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?
The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.
When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.
Fumbling for a word is everybody's birthright.
Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.
We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.
But what I do I do because I like to do.
Every dogma has its day.
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