376 Quotes by André Aciman

With Eric Rohmer - as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust - we need to remember that art is seldom about life, or not quite about life. Art is about discovery and design and reasoning with chaos.

The problem with Egypt is that there is no public trust. There is no trust, period.

'Almost' can be a polite way of saying something definitely. It withholds the obvious and dangles it just long enough.

'Almost' is about uncertainty soon to be dismissed but not quite dispelled. 'Almost' is about revelation to come but not entirely promised.

As a memoirist, I may claim to write the easier-to-remember things, but I could also just be writing to sweep them away. 'Don't bother me about my past,' I'll say, 'It's out in paperback now.'

Exiles see double, feel double, are double. When exiles see one place, they're also seeing - or looking for - another behind it.

Writing plays fast and loose with the past.

You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

I flew on a plane the week after 9/11.