Quotes by : Anthony Burgess

Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off forever....

I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world....

I didn't think I experimented.

What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps....

Our subject is, you see, impelled towards the good by, paradoxically, being impelled towards evil. The....

A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even....

The intention to act violently is accompanied by strong feelings of physical distress.

We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

Of course it was horrible,' smiled Dr. Branom. 'Violence is a very horrible thing. That's what you're....

A work of art is somehow organic, and to slash a painting or smash a statue is not just an offence against....