Anthony Burgess

“A human being is endowed with free will. He can use this gift to choose good or evil.”

“The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.”

“Music is a language, a universal language. It's not English, it's not German, it's not French.”

“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.”

“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”

“It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.”

“The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.”

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”

“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”

“What's it going to be then, eh?”

“To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.”

“And to appreciate the good, you must have a knowledge of evil.”

“A writer's job is to tell the truth.”

“Language exists to communicate whatever it is that we can communicate.”

“Art is a vision of the world, and that vision is moral.”