“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.”

— Anthony Burgess, The Right to an Answer (1960)

About Anthony Burgess

1917 – 1993

English novelist, author of "A Clockwork Orange".

“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.”

“To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.”

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”

“Connection is why we're here. It is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives.”

“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”

“Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.”

“You can live without a father who accepts you, but you cannot live without a world that makes some sense to you.”

Attribution note: Source disputed or unverified.

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”