If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.
Hanif KureishiIf you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.
Hanif KureishiAt the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?
Hanif KureishiThe vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.
Hanif KureishiChildren, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. Theyโll sit on anyoneโs knee.
Hanif KureishiAll the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability to get out of bed for days and days, the feeling of the world moving in to crush me, went on and on. But I knew I wouldn't go mad, even if that release, that letting-go, was a freedom I desired. I was waiting for myself to heal.
Hanif Kureishi