Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They’ll sit on anyone’s knee. — Hanif Kureishi Affection Copy Share Image
“Sometimes writers like to imagine that the difficulty of becoming a writer resides in convincing others that that is what you are.… — Hanif Kureishi Convincing yourself Copy Share Image
But you're beautiful, and the beautiful should be given whatever they want." "Hey, what about the ugly ones?" "The ugly ones." She… — Hanif Kureishi Beautiful 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 Acquaintance Copy Share Image
Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions. — Hanif Kureishi Backwards Copy Share Image
Like you, she will have been with other people, but I've got a feeling there's something between you. — Hanif Kureishi Feelings Copy Share Image
If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses. — Hanif Kureishi Arrangements Copy Share Image
Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of… — Hanif Kureishi Bears Copy Share Image
“Sex is like art: if you know what you’re doing, you don’t know what you’re doing.” — Hanif Kureishi Art 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 Fatherhood Copy Share Image
You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire. — Hanif Kureishi Beating yourself up 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 Class struggle 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 Intimacy Copy Share Image
I can't sleep with you tonight, baby, my head's all messed up, you've no idea. It's somewhere else and it's full of… — Hanif Kureishi Baby Copy Share Image
I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul. — Hanif Kureishi Desire 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 Intimacy Copy Share Image
“I have learned that the libido, like Elvis and jealousy, never dies. I know copulators of eighty-five. Who said you need an… — Hanif Kureishi Elvis Copy Share Image
These days everyone was insisting on their identity, coming out as a man, woman, gay, black, Jew - brandishing whichever features they… — Hanif Kureishi Black Copy Share Image
“Desire makes me laugh because it makes fools of us all. Still, rather a fool than a fascist.” — Hanif Kureishi Desire Copy Share Image
“Desire, like the dead or an unpleasant meal, would keep returning--it was ultimately indigestible.” — Hanif Kureishi Desire Copy Share Image
