“All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.”

— Anthony Burgess, A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (1992)

About Anthony Burgess

1917 – 1993

English novelist, author of "A Clockwork Orange".

“Home to people like me is not a place but all places, all places except the one we happen to be in at the moment.”

“The important thing is to get yourself born. You’re entitled to that. But you’re not entitled to life.”

“It is man's job to be curious; it is man's job to try to find out the truth about the world about us.”

“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”

“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”

“A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.”

“A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.”

“Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.”

“It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them.”