Anthony Burgess Quotes

The downtrodden who are the great creators of slang hurl pithiness and colour at poverty and oppression.

So we got hold of him and cracked him with a few good horrorshow tolchocks, but he still went on singing.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

The danger of memory is that it can turn anyone into a prophet.

A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the mind that so uses it is off-balance. I once found a small boy masturbating in the presence of the Victorian steel-engraving in a family Bible.

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

The modern State, whether in a totalitarian or a democratic country, has far too much power, and we are probably right to fear it.