Quotes by Anthony Burgess

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

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.

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.