laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Well, well, well, well. If it isn't fat, stinking billygoat Billy-Boy in poison. How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. -----… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Where do I come into all of this? Am I just some animal or dog?' And that started them off govoreeting real… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in;… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
...youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share
“A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share
Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share
The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share
Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share
The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share
... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share
A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share
“They don't go into what is the cause of goodness, so why of the other shop? If lewdies are good that's because they like… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share
“By definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he can only… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share
