Biography Quote by Nathanael West

“Perhaps I can make you understand. Let’s start from the beginning. A man is hired to give advice to the readers of a newspaper.…

— Nathanael West

He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking the world without rocking…

— Nathanael West

He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.

— Nathanael West

“He Sat in the window thinking. Man has a tropism for order. Keys in one pocket, change in the other. Mandolins are tuned G…

— Nathanael West

“Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on eath. Love all…

— Nathanael West

Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.

— Nathanael West

Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.

— Nathanael West

“But now let us consider the holes in our own bodies and into what these congenital wounds open. Under the skin of man is…

— Nathanael West

You once said to me that I talk like a man in a book. I not only talk, but think and feel like one.…

— Nathanael West

“Art Is One if Life's Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation.”

— Nathanael West

“He's an escapist. He wants to cultivate his interior garden.”

— Nathanael West

“His mouth formed an O with lips torn angry in laying duck's eggs from a chicken's rectum.”

— Nathanael West