“There should be no promise of a plot. Plot is extraordinary, while chance is ordinary.” — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening. — Jerzy Kosinski Evening Copy Share Image
“He had found the one calm place in the midst of the storm, a quiet voice calling him to earth.” — Jerzy Kosiński Nature Copy Share Image
“When I saw them in Africa, I thought these birds were the greatest fliers of all. Hardly beating their wings, they fly… — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
“That's why she keeps her nails long, she says, to be able to scratch and claw.” — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time. — Jerzy Kosinski Cities Copy Share Image
Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky. — Jerzy Kosinski Interfere Copy Share Image
“Against the background of bland colors he projected an unfadable blackness. In a world of men with harrowed faces, with smashed eyes,… — Jerzy Kosinski Decent people Copy Share Image
You don't die in the United States, you underachieve. — Jerzy Kosinski Death and dying Copy Share Image
Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as… — Jerzy Kosinski Body Copy Share Image
Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in… — Jerzy Kosinski America Copy Share Image
I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all. — Jerzy Kosinski Compass Copy Share Image
“As a boy I got the idea that death was an animal which lay curled inside waiting to swallow us.” — Jerzy Kosiński Death Copy Share Image
Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own… — Jerzy Kosinski Halfway Copy Share Image
The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can… — Jerzy Kosinski Artificial Copy Share Image
I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves. — Jerzy Kosinski Extremes Copy Share Image
A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could… — Jerzy Kosinski Cities Copy Share Image
It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself. — Jerzy Kosinski Consciousness Copy Share Image
“She protected herself by making herself believe no-one else could ever really understand her.” — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of… — Jerzy Kosinski Average Copy Share Image
People say, "Well, you went on television, it enlarged your readership." It did not at all, not at all. I might as… — Jerzy Kosinski Audience Copy Share Image
And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain… — Jerzy Kosinski Art Copy Share Image
