Anthony Burgess. A clockwork orange (№ 514)

But most of all entertained me, Bellin, the zeal with which they gnawed the nails on the toes, trying to get to the reasons why I'm so bad. Why people are good, they are not trying to find out, but here is zeal! Good people are those who like it, and I am in no way deprive them of this pleasure, and likewise about the wrong. Those own company, these own. Moreover, when a person is bad, it's just a property of his nature, his personality - mine, yours, his, each in his odinotshestve, and nature that God created, or Gog, or whatever it is in a great act of joyful creation. Nelinet can't accept that someone this is the person bad, in the sense that the government, judges and the schools cannot allow us to be bad because they cannot allow us to be personalities. And not all our modern history, Bellin, this is the story of the struggle of the brave young personalities against a huge machine? I really, Blin, quite seriously. But what I do, I do because I like to do it.