Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
Like candy thunder. Oh,
When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of the field of the novel and into that of the fable or the all...
What's done can't be undone. How do I fit into this new world? I should have been warned, somebody should have told me. How was I to know that that sort of world wasn't going to go on for ever?
Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.
Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings,...
As for the new world war that's waiting in the womb of time, a healthily developed foetus, who can say what will spark it, how destructive it will be? We've already played at this war in film and fict...
We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.
The more sin he sees, the more his belief in Original Sin is confirmed. Everyone likes to have his deepest convictions confirmed: that is one of the most abiding of human satisfaction.
That's what it's going to be then, brothers, as I come to the like end of this tale. You have been everywhere with your little droog Alex, suffering with him, and you have viddied some of the most gra...
Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.
Reason and faith, the Archbishop said, do not of necessity cohere. Reason saith that water will not be transformed to wine. Faith has a contrary answer.
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.
Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?
Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up.
And what, brothers, I had to escape into sleep from then was the horrible and wrong feeling that it was better to get the hit than give it. If that veck had stayed I might even have like presented the...
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
Well, if they would not go to school they must still have their education. And education they had had.
The attempt to impose upon man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate t...
So we got hold of him and cracked him with a few good horrorshow tolchocks, but he still went on singing.