Top 32 Quotes by Jerzy Kosinski

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.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.

Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.

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

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.

I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person.