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
The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world. — Anthony Burgess Dangerous 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
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly… — Anthony Burgess Alright 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
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
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
A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of… — Anthony Burgess Balance Copy Share Image
“I said, smiling very wide and droogie: ‘Well, if it isn’t fat stinking billygoat Billyboy in poison. How art thou, thou globby… — Anthony Burgess Said Smiling Copy Share Image
“I am instructed by the Home Secretary to read out the following. . . . It is a prayer devised by the… — Anthony Burgess Amen 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
I enjoy journalism; anybody does. You see the results immediately; you've got an immediate audience instead of having to wait for your… — Anthony Burgess Books Copy Share Image
“I’ll tell you a thing that will shock you. It will certainly shock the readers of Writer’s Digest. What I often do… — Anthony Burgess Books 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
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
“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
“English is a curiously expressive language. Womb, room, tomb. It sums up living in three words.” — Anthony Burgess Expressive 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 Freudian 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
