728 Quotes by Paul Auster

I don’t have all the facts. And I might misremember. As a matter of fact, after I finished Winter Journal, I realized that I’d gotten someone’s name wrong.

Once a man begins to recognize himself in another, he can no longer look on that person as a stranger.

A book is a mysterious object, I said, and once it floats out into the world, anything can happen.

In fifteen years, Sachs traveled from one end of himself to the other, and by the time he came to that last place, I doubt he even knew who he was anymore. So much distance had been covered by then, it wouldn’t have been possible for him to remember where he had begun.

People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you’re going to see just about all that you can handle.

Brooklyn has a bit of everything – some of the most beautiful things in America, and some of the most wretched, ugly, impoverished things.

I learned that freedom can be dangerous. If you don’t watch out, it can kill you.

It’s always a mystery to me, I have to confess. I’ve never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there’s nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there.

The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.