79 Quotes by Jerzy Kosiński

And really the purpose of art – for me, fiction – is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer’s life.

I do like to live in other people’s homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another’s home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person.

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.

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

People say, “Well, you went on television, it enlarged your readership.” It did not at all, not at all. I might as well tell you, I lost some readership, because the profound audience felt somehow bothered by my too easy manner.

It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one’s hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.