382 Quotes by Anthony Burgess

It’ll be your own torture,” he said, serious. “I hope to God it’ll torture you to madness.

Go on, do me in, you bastard cowards, I don’t want to live anyway, not in a stinking world like this one.′ I told Dim to lay off a bit then, because it used to interest me sometimes to slooshy what some of these starry decreps had to say about life and the world. I said: ‘Oh. And what’s stinking about it?

If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange – meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.

The writer’s life seethes within but not without.

If all you bastards are on the side of God then I’m glad I belong to the other shop.

And I sort of frowned about that, thinking. ‘You felt ill this afternoon,’ he said, ’because you’re getting better. When we’re healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea. You’re becoming healthy, that’s all.

It’s always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you’re going.

But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the CAUSE of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. They don’t go into what is the cause of GOODNESS, so why of the other shop?

Perhaps the ultimate act of evil is dehumanization, the killing of the soul.