185 Quotes by Hanif Kureishi

You see people truly when they enjoy the most.

I admired him more than anyone but I didn't wish him well. It was that I preferred him to me and wanted to be him. I coveted his talents, face, style. I wanted to wake up with them all transferred to me.

Growing old isn’t for pussies.

One night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don’t need things to get any worse, I hear the voices again.

The mad were put in asylums, but the sane are worse off in their offices.

Dear God, teach me to be careless.

I know love is dark work; you have to get your hands dirty. If you hold back, nothing interesting happens. At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you; too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?

I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another! And what pleasure!

My son, there may be a time when I explain these things to you, because there may be a time when I understand them.