Quotes by : Paul Bowles

...It is far more sinful to pray irregularly than not to pray at all.

You know what politique is? It is the French word for a lie. Kdoub! Politique! When you hear the French....

At some point in the night she had a dream. Or it was possible that she was partially awake, and was....

There are mornings when, from the first ray of light seized upon by the eye, and the first simple sounds....

He did not look up because he knew how senseless the landscape would appear. It takes energy to invest....

nothing would have meaning, because the knowing was itself the meaning; beyond that there was nothing....

Whenever he was en route from one place to another, he was able to look at his life with a little more....

How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're....

Every little thing makes a difference, whether you decide it yourself or whether it’s pure accident.....

...he refused to consider the Moroccans' present culture, however decadent, an established fact, an existing....