It was all a matter of a Goddess – dark, hidden, deadly, horribly desirable. - Anthony Burgess

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. 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 prefer to think of [young women] less as human beings than as pimply parcels of televisual reflexes.

‘Ass’ for ‘arse’ does not seem to represent a willingness, on British lines, to make the word arhotic; rather it is a puritanical substitution which forces a real ass to become a donkey or burro.