Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do.

Democracy is even more important for what it prevents than for what it provides.

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.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.