מאה למי שנודע כמחברו של הספר "התפוז המכני", אף שהיה סופר פורה, משורר, מחזאי, בלשן, מבקר ספרות ומוזיקאי מוכשר, השבוע עם מי שנאבק בשאלות הגדולות של החיים בעיניים פעורות לרווחה, ג'ון אנתוני ברג'ס וילסון

 

Each man kills the thing he loves 
Anthony Burgess

 

Life is, of course, terrible. 
Anthony Burgess

 

I heard life going on, and it was a comfort. 
Anthony Burgess

 

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

Anthony Burgess

 

In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations. 
Anthony Burgess

 

Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities. 

Anthony Burgess

 

The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish. 
Anthony Burgess

 

Life to most of us is just a jumble of sensations, like a very bad film with no plot, no real beginning and end. 
Anthony Burgess

 

Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance. 
Anthony Burgess

 

Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose. 
Anthony Burgess