Quotes by : Paul Auster

Words tend to last a big longer than things, but eventually they fade too, along with the pictures they....

Time makes us grow old, but it also gives us the day and the night...Lying is a bad thing. It makes you....

My French was neither good nor bad. I had enough to understand what people said to me, but speaking was....

Try to roll with the punches. Keep your chin up. Don’t take any wooden nickels. Vote Democrat in every....

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

It is also true that memory sometimes comes to him as a voice. It is a voice that speaks inside him,....

Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty....

I was perfectly calm and perfectly insane, perfectly prepared to accept what the moment had offered.....

Bit by bit, I found myself relaxing into the conversation. Kitty had a natural talent for drawing people....

And if, as all philosophers on the subject have noted, art is a human activity that relies on the senses....