"Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they should be presented hypocritically as good artists just because they're supposed to be advancing the fron..."
- Anthony Burgess
"A work of art is somehow organic, and to slash a painting or smash a statue is not just an offence against property: it is an offence against life."
"Perhaps, all these years, the historiographers had been unwilling to recognize history as a spiral, perhaps because a spiral was so difficult to describe. Easier to photograph the spiral from the top,..."
"It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil."
"I like nothing better in this world than a good clean book, brother."
"What sort of world is it at all? Men on the moon and men spinning round the earth like it might be midges round a lamp, and there's not no attention paid to earthly law nor order no more."
"It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen."
"My son, my son. When I had my son I would explain all that to him when he was starry enough to like understand. But then I knew he would not understand or would not want to understand at all and would..."
"Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of..."
"The heresy of an age of reason,' or some such slovos [words]. 'I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong."