He slipped away slowly, withdrawing from this world by small, imperceptible degrees, and in the end it was as if he were a drop of water evaporating in the sun, shrinking and shrinking until at last he wasnโt there anymore.
Paul AusterPeople 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.
Paul AusterWe are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.
Paul AusterTo care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.
Paul AusterI am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach myself how to do it.
Paul AusterEvery book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words represent many months if not many years, of one manโs solitude, so that with each word one reads in a book one might say to himself that he is confronting a particle of that solitude
Paul Auster