79 Quotes by Jerzy Kosiński

Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained.

You don't die in the United States, you underachieve.

All my father saw was what he wanted to see.

I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.

All my life I've been hiding.

Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them.

It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career out of being so likable.

I am curious about grownups, not children.

When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely.