112 Quotes by Paul Bowles

Only then did he understand that he really wanted to know nothing about El Ga’a beyond the fact that it was isolated and unfrequented, that it was precisely those things he had been trying to ascertain about it.

If Moroccans are dying in Indo-China, if it rains too much or not enough, if there is no work, if one’s wife is sick and penicillin is expensive, or if the French are still in Morocco, it is all the fault of America. She could change everything if she chose, but she does nothing because she does not love the Moslems.

The odious little dogs that French people seemed to like so much rushed out at him as he rode by, barking furiously.

Polly belonged wholly to her time. Alert to its defects and dangers, she nevertheless had reached what she herself called an “adjustment,” and she was very firm in her belief that without the attainment of a state of conscious harmony with the society in which he functioned, no individual could hope to accomplish much of anything.