Jerzy Kosinski Quotes

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird

As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.

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

Life is a state of mind.

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.