“Love seems inevitable, necessary, as normal and as easy a process as respiration.”

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

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.”

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.”

“Not to display anger or other emotions. To be free of passion and yet full of love.”

“I call upon you, young men, to obey your heart, and be the nobility of this land.”

“Give all to love; obey thy heart.”