“ If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do. ”
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
~ Clive James
All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.
The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish.
Apparently Burgess shares the gutter press assumption that those who achieve fame should be made to suffer from it.