Impulse Yagami

“There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters. Even trashy bestsellers show people changing. When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory.

- from the introduction of the 1986 Norton edition”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“What gives, O my little sister? Come thou and have a nice lay-down with your malenky droog in this bed.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Bedways is rightways now, so best we go homeways.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange