Quotes by : Paul Auster

Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex....

Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many....

The difference was not that one was a pessimist and the other an optimist, it was that one's pessimism....

A lot of film people are like that– especially the ones below the line, the blue-collar guys, the grunts.....

You can't see yourself. You know what you look like because of mirrors and photographs, but out there....

(...) Taking the journalist's vow of impartiality and objectivity was not unlike joining an order of....

If you look into someone's face long enough, eventually you're going to feel that you're looking at yourself.....

but even the facts do not always tell the truth

For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied....

Memory, therefore, not simply as the resurrection of one’s private past, but an immersion in the past....