382 Quotes by Anthony Burgess

Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If we take anything with us into the next world, it is not what survives in the memories of our relicts.

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.

I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation.

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.