382 Quotes by Anthony Burgess

It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.

What's it going to be then, eh?

It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.

... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky bit out loud in a sort of very high type preaching goloss: '- The attempt to impose upon a man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my swordpen-

It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.

But where I itty now, O my brothers, is all on my oddy knocky, where you cannot go. Tomorrow is all like sweet flowers and the turning vonny earth and the stars and the old Luna up there. ... And all that cal.

He said it was artificial respiration but now I find I'm to have his child.

Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written.

Fumbling for a word is everybody's birthright.