Jerzy Kosinski
Quotations
All my father saw was what he wanted to see.
All my life I've been hiding.
I am curious about grownups, not children.
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity. (his suicide note)
It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career out of being so likable.
She was old and always bent over, as though she wanted to break herself in half but could not. Her long hair, never combed, had knotted itself into innumerable thick braids impossible to unravel. These she called elflocks. She hobbled around, leaning on a gnarled stick, muttering to herself in a language I could not understand. Her small withered face was covered with a net of wrinkles, and her skin was reddish brown like that on an overbaked apple.
Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them.
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