1. Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.
A Clockwork Orange
2. In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.
Earthly Powers
3. People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.
Earthly Powers
4. When we pray we admit defeat.
The Wanting Seed
