Anthony Burgess

"When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man."

"…the Malay word chium meant to plough the beloved’s face with one’s nose"

"We know what goes on in the act of love, and those of us who are writers despair of ever finding verbal equivalents for the pain and pleasure of excitation fulfilled in what Rabelais’s translator Urqu…"

"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."

"‘Sir, we are trying to work because we are having to take the examination in a very brief time from now, but the younger boys are not realizing the importance of our labours and they are creating veri…"

"There is a profound middle-class nostalgia for the days of British protection...."

"'The Government cannot be concerned any longer with outmoded penological theories....Common criminals...can best be dealt with on a purely curative basis. Kill the criminal reflex, that’s all.'"

"Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear running and running on like very light and mysterious nogas, carving the whole litso of the creeching w…"