Anthony Burgess Quotes

I prize the privilege of being alone.

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

Was it so much to ask just to be left alone?

It's hard to just kinda get some privacy and do your own thing.

I like to have space.

I just wanted to have a private life.

I just want to be left alone.

I like my space.

I don't know when I'll ever get a chance to be all alone in a film.

I'd rather be left to my own private life as much as be possible.

We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.

her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.

All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.

Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you.

I tend to have to just get away from it all, so it is nice when touring to be able to come home for a week or two and close the door and not really see anybody.

A hotel room all to myself is my idea of a good time.

I only said, 'I want to be left alone.'

A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own.

I am private.

I just love my privacy.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

All we ask is to be let alone.