That night we visited various places where well-shaped and scented, though completely naked, Japanese girls came to sit on male knees. - Anthony Burgess

The intention to act violently is accompanied by strong feelings of physical distress.

“...reality’s always dull, you know...”

As for the new world war that's waiting in the womb of time, a healthily developed foetus, who can say what will spark it, how destructive it will be? We've already played at this war in film and fiction, indicating that there's a part of us that desperately wants it. What nonsense writers and filmmakers talk when they say that their terrible visions are meant as a warning. [...] It's sheer wish fulfillment. War... is a culture pattern. It's a legitimate mode of cultural transmission....