But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the CAUSE of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. They don't go into wh….

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….

Well, well, well, well. If it isn't fat, stinking billygoat Billy-Boy in poison. How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking chip-oil? Come a….

For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a sinner, and doth wilfully refuse the m….

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles..

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialecti….

I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me..

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

But where I itty now, O my brothers, is all on my oddy knocky, where you cannot go. Tomorrow is all like sweet flowers and the turning vonny earth an….

You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do..

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 ….

What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art..

But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's our expectations that let us down. It begins ….

A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive..

I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced c….

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….

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 ….

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..

In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the ….

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

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 ….