In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky… — Anthony Burgess Age 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 Books Copy Share Image
“Being young is like being like one of these malenky machines.” — Anthony Burgess Computers Copy Share Image
“To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.” — Anthony Burgess Beauty Copy Share Image
It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where… — Anthony Burgess Celebrate 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
“In other words, I heard life going on, and it was a comfort.” — Anthony Burgess Life Copy Share Image
I'm a natural clown, I suppose, in writing, and one has to accept that; I can't do anything about it. I have… — Anthony Burgess Accept 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 Doe Copy Share Image
I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense. — Anthony Burgess Human nature Copy Share Image
John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced. — Anthony Burgess Kenneth 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
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 Art Copy Share Image
“People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to… — Anthony Burgess Action 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
“Then I wanted to sick up the gluey pie I'd had before the start of the evening, But I couldn't stand the… — Anthony Burgess Alex 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 God 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 is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities. — Anthony Burgess Character Copy Share Image
Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better… — Anthony Burgess Choices Copy Share Image
“There comes a time, however, when violence is seen as juvenile and boring. It is the repartee of the stupid and ignorant.” — Anthony Burgess Crime Copy Share Image
laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen. — Anthony Burgess Appropriate Copy Share Image
Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive. — Anthony Burgess Constructive Copy Share Image
