To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“It’s a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old like you done, and there’s no law nor… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear running and running on… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If… — 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
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Do they merit vitriol, even a drop of it? Yes, because they corrupt the young, persuading them that the mature world, which… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“I like nothing better in this world than a good clean book, brother.” — 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
