“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.”

— Anthony Burgess, English Literature: A Survey for Students (1958, revised 1974)

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.”

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

“What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty!”

“The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.”

“You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.”

“The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.”

“The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.”

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”