“The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else. — 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
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never… — 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
The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Goodbye, goodbye, may Bog forgive you for a ruined life." Then I got on to the sill, the music blasting away to… — Anthony Burgess 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 Copy Share Image
One goes on writing partly because it is the only available way of earning a living. It is a hard way and… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“My book was Kennedyan and accepted the notion of moral progress. What was really wanted was a Nixonian book with no shred… — Anthony Burgess 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 Copy Share Image
Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I mean, there's little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd moments, and if… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed. — 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 Image
“A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
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 Image
... 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 Image
