Quotes by : Christopher Isherwood

Up the coast a few miles north, in a lava reef under the cliffs, there are a lot of rock pools. You can....

From 1929 to 1933, [age 25-29] I lived almost continuously in Berlin, with only occasional visits to....

Chalmers, thanks to Baudelaire, knew all about Taffreuse Juive, opium, absinthe, negresses, Lesbos and....

It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible....

I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit....

But your book is wrong, Mrs. Strunk, says George, when it tells you that Jim is the substitute I found....

These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening....

... he couldn't, as a respectable master in an English public school, have taken us to a brothel. Yet....

That is what War is, I thought: two ships pass each other, and nobody waves his hand.

Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, the....