I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense. — Anthony Burgess Human nature Copy Share Image
Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is. — Anthony Burgess Cease Copy Share Image
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain. — Anthony Burgess Aesthetic Copy Share Image
Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist. — Anthony Burgess Art Copy Share Image
“You must take your chance boy. The choice has been all yours.” — Anthony Burgess Chance Copy Share Image
All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else. — Anthony Burgess Atheism Copy Share Image
“I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it… — Anthony Burgess Immoral Copy Share Image
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. — Anthony Burgess Intellectual 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 Color Copy Share Image
Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to… — Anthony Burgess Bigs Copy Share Image
I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are… — Anthony Burgess Chapters Copy Share Image
A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of… — Anthony Burgess Books Copy Share Image
It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness. — Anthony Burgess Madness Copy Share Image
“It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop… — Anthony Burgess Birthday Copy Share Image
When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a serious writer.… — Anthony Burgess Comic Copy Share Image
Then, brothers, it came. Oh, bliss, bliss and heaven. I lay all nagoy to the ceiling, my gulliver on my rookers on… — Anthony Burgess Bliss Copy Share Image
Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in… — Anthony Burgess Credit Copy Share Image
The next morning I woke up at oh eight oh oh hours, my brothers, and as I still felt shagged and fagged… — Anthony Burgess Brother Copy Share Image
Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books… — Anthony Burgess Book Copy Share Image
“Badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old… — Anthony Burgess Badness 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 Blast Copy Share Image
But where I itty now, O my brothers, is all on my oddy knocky, where you cannot go. Tomorrow is all like… — Anthony Burgess Brother Copy Share Image
“By definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he… — Anthony Burgess Clockwork-orange Copy Share Image
The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps… — Anthony Burgess Bed Copy Share Image
“They don't go into what is the cause of goodness, so why of the other shop? If lewdies are good that's because… — Anthony Burgess Badness Copy Share Image
“And then, before he told me, I knew what it was. The old ptitsa who had all the kots and koshkas had… — Anthony Burgess Better world Copy Share Image
“Yes yes yes, there it was. Youth must go, ah yes. But youth is only being in a way like it might… — Anthony Burgess End of the world Copy Share Image
“Well well well. What makes, bratty. What gives, this fine bright middle of the nochy?" He said: "I'll give you just ten… — Anthony Burgess A-clockwork-orange Copy Share Image
It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that… — Anthony Burgess Be good 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 Appropriate Copy Share Image
