Top 32 Quotes by Jerzy Kosinski

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

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.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

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.

I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

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

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

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

Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.