Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. – Anthony Burgess
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. – Anthony Burgess
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. – Anthony Burgess
Its usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. Its such a cliche to say that artists write when theyre down, but its true for me. Its a relief to get out whats eating away at my heart or my soul or my head. – Ellie Goulding