Anthony Burgess & T.A.G.

During lecture preceding premier of T.A.G. production of a Clockwork Orange.
My favourite moment, during the pre-show interview, was when a member of the audience asked Burgess how he had felt when, in his early twenties, doctors had given him only six months to live. Burgess replied that it wasn't as bad as one might think - after all he had never before been told he HAD six months to live.