“My son, there may be a time when I explain these things to you, because there may be a time when I… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
One would hope, as well that intimacy would leave more of a mark, that more of it would remain. But it doesn’t.… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“Now, watching her sleep, and closing his eyes, he felt, in this particular intimacy - stowed beneath her duvet - that he… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another!… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“Yet velvet curtains, soft cheese, compelling work and boys who can run full-tilt—it isn't enough. And if it isn't, it isn't. There's… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“I know love is dark work; you have to get your hands dirty. If you hold back, nothing interesting happens. At the… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“To be well married you have to a penchant for the intricacies of intimacy and larval change..If the personality is a spider's… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share
I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share
Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share
“Ali isto tako sam i shvatio da prestupnistvo samo ucvrscuje pravila koja pokusava da prekrsi. Nista ne osnazuje normu kao odstupanje od nje.” — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share
One would hope, as well that intimacy would leave more of a mark, that more of it would remain. But it doesn’t. You just… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share
I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share
What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share
“People who were only ever half right about things drove me mad. I hated the flood of opinion, the certainty, the easy talk about… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share
“Desire is naughty and doesn't conform to our ideals, which is why we have such a need of them. Desire mocks all human endeavour… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share
I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share
“Maybe you never stop feeling like an eight-year-old in front of your parents. You resolve to be your mature self, to react in this… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share
