As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.
Anthony BurgessLiterature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.
Anthony BurgessI don't write out of fear. I write out of a strong urge to meet death on its own eternal terms, because the fact is that if you write as little as a page of prose-even bad prose-that is eternal.
Anthony Burgess