Anthony BurgessThinkers

Colonialism is the enforced spread of the rule of reason to all but the colonizers themselves

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't pay.

The Dictionary is a volume in which each word is very much like a car in an auto show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.

The Disk jockey is the Hollow Man, electronic lice.

Fashion is geared toward women, who thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and tom jackets.

Jazz is music that is illiterate, instinctual, impulsive. aleatoric, unscorable, unpredictable. And that's its charm.

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

Rome is just a city like everywhere else.

Rome is just a city like anywhere else, a vastly overrated city that trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare.

Society is made up of structures, or 'relatively permanent, 'institutionalized' spaces of perception and action, secured by relatively stable routines and a distribution of labor.

William Shakespeare is a writer who, if he required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.