Paul Auster Quotes
I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.
Quotes to Explore
-
We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
-
I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
-
I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.
-
So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
-
Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
-
My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
-
I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
-
There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
-
I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
-
I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
-
To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
-
As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
-
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
-
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
-
Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.
-
I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
-
Fred Segal was founded - by none other than Fred Segal - as a tiny jeans retailer in 1968. In the 1970s Segal, began selling space to employees, starting with his nephew Ron Herman.
-
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
-
My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride, Bridget. They headed for Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and a mecca for Irish-Catholic immigrants then.
-
I have just read your book On the Spiritual in Art from cover to cover, and I will read it once more. I find it pleasing to an extraordinary degree, because we agree on nearly all of the main issues..
-
I think that the thing is, all those years of creating music or trying to express something of a dark shadow, an existential angst that I have felt most of my life and still feel today, to not be overwhelmed by it. Music, in a way, is a great vehicle, a means by which one can express all these somewhat contradictory feelings.
-
I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.
-
I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.
