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

— Anthony Burgess, The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End (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.”

“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.”

“The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations.”

“That which I am, I am; I did not seek for life, nor did I make myself.”

“I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.”

“In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.”

“You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.”

“Men of the most brilliant intelligence can be born, live and die in error and falsehood.”