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
If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company… — Jerzy Kosinski Business Copy Share Image
I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself. — Jerzy Kosinski Attention 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
Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them. — Jerzy Kosinski Forget Copy Share Image
“The recent Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists over twenty thousand specialized professions in America; being a millionaire is not one of them.” — Jerzy Kosiński Career Copy Share Image
- Growth has its season. There are spring and summer, but there are also fall and winter. And then spring and summer… — Jerzy Kosinski Fall Copy Share Image
Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life. — Jerzy Kosinski Life Copy Share Image
“At times, feeling the wind on my brow, I went numb with horror. In my imagination I saw armies of ants and… — Jerzy Kosiński Time 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
When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely. — Jerzy Kosinski Claims Copy Share Image
Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression. — Jerzy Kosinski Art 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 Judaism 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
In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds… — Jerzy Kosinski Clouds Copy Share Image
“All cats are the same in the dark, says the proverb. But it certainly did not apply to people, with them it… — Jerzy Kosiński Psychology Copy Share Image
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author. — Jerzy Kosinski Accepting Copy Share Image
“Our language has lost its ability to convey the spontaneous.” — Jerzy Kosiński Language Copy Share Image
“I have always suspected everyone who likes me of having poor judgment. I despise them for being so easily taken in.” — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
