185 Quotes by Hanif Kureishi

He felt like a criminal, though the only laws he’d broken were his own, and he wasn’t sure which ones they were.

Is she always elusive?” “Her whole life’s a no-show.

Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind.

Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They’ll sit on anyone’s knee.

You’re one of those old-fashioned, romantic men for whom women aren’t really there unless you decide we are.

If you want to know a man, see how he is in love.

No amount of promises can guarantee love.

Artists were allowed, indeed encouraged, to lead more libidinous lives on behalf of others who had, of necessity, to leave their jouissance at the door while they worked.

You’re smart enough to recognize that the subjects of migraines and cats never fail with the women. Lead the old girl toward the mint tea.