Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“How utterly our past suffuses us. We live in all our days at once.” — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“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
At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and… — 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
“I liked Terry more than anyone I'd met for a long time, and we talked everyday. But he did believe the working… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“It was clear that Eleanor had been to bed with a large and random collection of people, but when I suggested she… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“ Unlike films, plays don't take place in the past. The fear,anxiety of the actors is happening now, in front of you.… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
If you never left anything or anyone there would be no room for the new. Naturally, to move on is an infidelity… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“I didn't want to be educated. It wasn't the right time of my life for concentration, it really wasn't. The spirit of… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“He died at the wrong time, when there was much to be clarified and established. They hadn’t even started to be grown-ups… — 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
