Quotes by : Paul Bowles

Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler belonging....

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

Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the....

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.

Often when he was not working he had come here and sat an entire afternoon, lulled by the din and music....

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

...Amar was made conscious in an instant of a presence in the air, something which had been there all....

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

Decadence, decadence, he said to himself. They’ve lost everything and gained nothing. The French had....