Imrie

“You've sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have no power of choice any longer. You are committed to socially acceptable acts, a little machine capable only of good.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“We can all be clockmakers, or astronomers. But if we all wanted to be Pushkin. . .if the question is, how do you make a poem by Pushkin?- or, what exactly makes one poem or painting or piece of music greater than another?- or, what is beauty?, or liberty?, or virtue?- if the question is, how should we live?. . . then, reason gives no answer or different answers. So something went wrong. The divine spark in man is not reason after all, but something else, some kind of intuition or vision, perhaps like the moment of inspiration experienced by the artist . . .”
― Tom Stoppard, Voyage

“I always thought October was a kind old Love-light.”
― Jack Kerouac

“To be morally educated is to realize that such would be a terrible price. Mechanical advance is the slack taken up of
Our failing humanity. Hell is very likely to be modernization infinitely extended.”
― Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love