“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”

Anthony Burgess

“When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.”

Anthony Burgess

“Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.”

Anthony Burgess

“People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.”

Anthony Burgess

“If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilised discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.”

Anthony Burgess