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.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.