79 Quotes by Jerzy Kosiński

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

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.

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.