728 Quotes by Paul Auster

The mind cannot win over matter, for once the mind is asked to do too much, it quickly shows itself to be matter as well.

Ferguson closed his eyes, paused for a long moment, and then turned to her and said: The best thing about being fifteen is that you don't have to be fifteen for more than a year.

(...) a lire belongs only to the person who lives it; life itself will claim the living; to live is to let live.

I always sense the future, the antithesis of everything is always before my eyes. I have never seen a child without thinking that it would grow old, nor a cradle without thinking of a grave. The sight of a naked woman makes me imagine her skeleton.

She's too sad to be beautiful. No one that sad can still be beautiful.

Angesichts der Schwierigkeiten, vor die uns die reale Welt stellte, war es wohl ganz verständlich, daß wir ihr so oft es ging den Rücken kehrten.

Bibliotheken befinden sich schließlich außerhalb der realen Welt. Es sind abgeschiedene Orte, Zufluchtsstätten des reinen Denkens. Auf diese Weise kann ich für den Rest meines Lebens auf dem Mond weiterleben.

The world is governed by chance. Randomness stalks us every day of our lives.

but even the facts do not always tell the truth