Paul Auster Quotes
All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.
Quotes to Explore
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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Before I go to bed, I brush my teeth and take off all my makeup. I like to use Neutrogena's makeup remover wipes.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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I have a couture body.
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When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.
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Faith is never identical with piety.
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I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.
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Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
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The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.
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For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an iconic event. Downtown Beirut became a metaphor for so many things: man's inhumanity to man, what Charles Bukowski called "the impossibility of being human." It shaped our perceptions of war and human nature, just as Vietnam did for our parents. We used it to understand how the world works.
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All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.
