Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.- Anthony Burgess
We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They do not know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you are going.
If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
I didn't think; I experimented.
