Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist. — Anthony Burgess Art Copy Share Image
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain. — Anthony Burgess Aesthetic Copy Share Image
“I like nothing better in this world than a good clean book, brother.” — Anthony Burgess Book Copy Share Image
Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is. — Anthony Burgess Cease Copy Share Image
The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world. — Anthony Burgess Dangerous Copy Share Image
If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others. — Anthony Burgess Believe 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… — Anthony Burgess Atheism Copy Share Image
You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive. — Anthony Burgess Contraceptives Copy Share Image
Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so… — Anthony Burgess Aspect Copy Share Image
“What gives, O my little sister? Come thou and have a nice lay-down with your malenky droog in this bed.” — Anthony Burgess Come Copy Share Image
The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because… — Anthony Burgess Government Copy Share Image
John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced. — Anthony Burgess Canada 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
For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a… — Anthony Burgess Chosen Copy Share Image
“Destruction, best expressed in this age in which I write as terrorism, is truly there for its own sake, but the pretense… — Anthony Burgess Destruction 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
And I sort of frowned about that, thinking. 'You felt ill this afternoon,' he said, 'because you're getting better. When we're healthy… — Anthony Burgess Afternoon Copy Share Image
A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past,… — Anthony Burgess Acceptable 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 Art Copy Share Image
This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother… — Anthony Burgess Age 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 Brothers Copy Share Image
“Then I noticed, in all my pain and sickness,what music it was that like crackled and boomed on the sound-track, and it… — Anthony Burgess Music Copy Share Image
“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
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
“But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the cause of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing… — Anthony Burgess Badness 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 entrant mooed like a calf but in insolence looked about him. Hew saw Kit. Kit saw him. Nay, it was more… — Anthony Burgess Consecration 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
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. — Anthony Burgess Business 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
Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing. — Anthony Burgess Books 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
Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing. — Anthony Burgess Beckett 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
Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised… — Anthony Burgess Civilized Copy Share Image
“You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do.” — Anthony Burgess Desperation Copy Share Image
The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels. — Anthony Burgess Art Copy Share Image
