Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.
Anthony BurgessI think art is sublimated libido. You canโt be a eunuch priest, and you canโt be a eunuch artist.
Anthony BurgessWhere do I come into all of this? Am I just some animal or dog?' And that started them off govoreeting real loud and throwing slovos at me. So I creeched louder still, creeching: 'Am I just to be like a clockwork orange?
Anthony BurgessThis truth may be handled either sinfully or profitably; sinfully as when it is treated on only to satisfy curiosity, and to keep up a mere barren speculative dispute.... This point of election... is not to be agitated in a verbal and contentious way, but in a saving way, to make us tremble and to set us upon a more diligent and close striving with God in prayer, and all other duties.
Anthony Burgess