Everything in the room is like that: unnecessarily solid…

“From his angle, the curtain seems to form itself into a shrouded, wavering figure, indescribably terrifying in its very indistinctness. Something waiting, hovering on…

— Christopher Isherwood

“If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.”

— Christopher Isherwood

But seriously, I believe I'm a sort of Ideal Woman, if you know what I mean. I'm the sort of woman who can take…

— Christopher Isherwood

If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in.

— Christopher Isherwood

“By the time it has gotten dressed, it has become he; has become already more or less George — though still not the whole…

— Christopher Isherwood

“George feels that, even if all this double talk hasn't brought them any closer to understanding each other, the not-understanding, the readiness to remain…

— Christopher Isherwood

“Now, for example, people with freckles aren’t thought of as a minority by the nonfreckled. They aren’t a minority in the sense we’re talking…

— Christopher Isherwood

“Even when they are geniuses in spite of it, their masterpieces are invariably warped.”

— Christopher Isherwood

“Here, in their midst, George feels a sort of vertigo. Oh God, what will become of them all? What chance have they? Ought I…

— Christopher Isherwood

“I put my genius into my life, not into my art.”

— Christopher Isherwood

We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.

— Christopher Isherwood

In the eternal lazy morning of the Pacific, days slip away into months, months into years; the seasons are reduced to the faintest nuance…

— Christopher Isherwood

“Waking up begins with am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into…

— Christopher Isherwood

“Like a long train which stops at every dingy little station, the winter dragged slowly past.”

— Christopher Isherwood

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

— Christopher Isherwood