Quotes by : Anthony Burgess

Yes yes yes, there it was. Youth must go, ah yes. But youth is only being in a way like it might be an....

There was no trust anywhere in the world, O my brothers, the way I could see it.

Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they should....

The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured.....

You've sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into....

Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness.

The heresy of an age of reason. I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

Badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old Bog....

...I expected a gift, you know, something nice and useless...

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