I don't write out of fear. I write out of a strong urge to meet death on its own eternal terms, because the fact is that if you write as little as a ….

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 wicke….

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 of….

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the Eur….

A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey..

It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van..

The state is never so efficient as when it wants money..

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 ….

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets..

Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free..

Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned..

That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to the living spirit of man as expressed….

You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive..

To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create..

There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our ….

Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?.

It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness..

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..

Fumbling for a word is everybody's birthright..

John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced..

This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother to learn? There's nothing more delig….