Jerzy Kosinski

“The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.”

“Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.”

“I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.”

“I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.”

“I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.”

“Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.”

“And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.”

“I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.”

“The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.”

“There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.”

“The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.”

“The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.”