Jerzy Kosinski quotes

Life is a state of mind. (Jerzy Kosinski)
Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.
Jerzy Kosinski
There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or translate my impulses into words, I am betraying the real thoughts and impulses which remain hidden.
Jerzy Kosinski
It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself.
Jerzy Kosinski
In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.
Jerzy Kosinski
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity.
Jerzy Kosinski
Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.
Jerzy Kosinski
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
Jerzy Kosinski
Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.
Jerzy Kosinski
Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.
Jerzy Kosinski
If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one. (Jerzy Kosinski)
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.
Jerzy Kosinski
I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.
Jerzy Kosinski
There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.
Jerzy Kosinski
I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.
Jerzy Kosinski
In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.
Jerzy Kosinski
And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.
Jerzy Kosinski
Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.
Jerzy Kosinski
It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.
Jerzy Kosinski
A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.
Jerzy Kosinski
I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel. (Jerzy Kosinski)
Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.
Jerzy Kosinski
I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.
Jerzy Kosinski
There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.
Jerzy Kosinski
A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.
Jerzy Kosinski