“But if you eat this chap who's God,' said Llewelyn stoutly, 'how can it be horrible? If it's alright to eat God… — Anthony Burgess Cannibalism Copy Share Image
Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. — Anthony Burgess Choices 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 Appearance Copy Share Image
The book I am best known for, or only known for, is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: written a quarter… — Anthony Burgess Book Copy Share Image
“My son, my son. When I had my son I would explain all that to him when he was starry enough to… — Anthony Burgess Discipline 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 Enough 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 Animal Copy Share Image
Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers? — Anthony Burgess Colonialism Copy Share Image
I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt… — Anthony Burgess Abandonment Copy Share Image
“At the age of fifteen he had bought off a twopenny stall in the market a duo-decimo book of recipes, gossip, and… — Anthony Burgess Books 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 Aim Copy Share Image