Lou Sang Sayings

#1. I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

Bill Bryson

#2. By the end of the first Potions lesson, he knew he'd been wrong. Snape didn't dislike Harry - he hated him.

J.K. Rowling

#3. Summer has taken a sensuous turn: Ayrs's wife and I are lovers. Don't alarm yourself! Only in the carnal sense.

David Mitchell

#4. I read the newspaper avidly.
It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Aneurin Bevan

#5. Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.

Homer

#6. The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him - it was so matter-of-fact,

Julian Casablancas

#7. Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.

Alan Bennett

#8. My work is my work. I take my work seriously but I don't take myself too seriously.

Tina Fey