There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an… — Jerzy Kosinski Action 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
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
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 is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life. — Jerzy Kosinski Consciousness Copy Share Image
“I'm sure there are aspects of my personality buried within me that will surface as soon as I know I am completely… — Jerzy Kosiński Loved Copy Share Image
I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives… — Jerzy Kosinski Enjoy Copy Share Image
Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird — Jerzy Kosinski Bird 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
As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way… — Jerzy Kosinski Awake Copy Share Image
It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career… — Jerzy Kosinski Career Copy Share Image
Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational...We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish… — Jerzy Kosinski Economic Copy Share Image
“Wouldn't it be easier to change people's eyes and hair than to build big furnaces and then catch Jews and Gypsies to… — Jerzy Kosinski Jews Copy Share Image
Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is… — Jerzy Kosinski Homelessness Copy Share Image
“Do you realize that one out of every four Americans is unbalanced? Think of your three closest friends. If they seem normal,… — Jerzy Kosiński Closest friends 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
It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one. — Jerzy Kosinski Cocktail Copy Share Image
My choice of a life of adventure may well have been a result of the fact that action raised my blood pressure… — Jerzy Kosinski Action Copy Share Image
Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership. — Jerzy Kosinski Apprehensive Copy Share Image
