As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse.
Anthony BurgessI think art is sublimated libido. You canโt be a eunuch priest, and you canโt be a eunuch artist.
Anthony BurgessLife'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 BurgessLiterature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.
Anthony Burgess