Quotes by : Paul Bowles

Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction,....

There could be nothing, he reflected, to equal a government which was simply the honest enforcement,....

Security is a false god begin making sacrifices to it and you are lost.

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

The soul is the weariest part of the body.

Yes, but perhaps he did have something to do with it.” (In such arguments Stenham often found himself....

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

Although this was not a comforting point of view, he did not reject it, because it coincided with one....

The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command....

Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.