79 Quotes by Jerzy Kosiński

The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating.

[Nabokov's] language is made visible . . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind.

Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational...We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us.

I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.

Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird

- Growth has its season. There are spring and summer, but there are also fall and winter. And then spring and summer again. As long as the roots are not severed, all is well and all be well.

I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.

My choice of a life of adventure may well have been a result of the fact that action raised my blood pressure giving me enough energy to live.