Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time. – Jerzy Kosinski
If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one. – Jerzy Kosinski
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. – Jerzy Kosinski
I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening. – Jerzy Kosinski
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author. – Jerzy Kosinski
Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership. – Jerzy Kosinski
Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard. – Jerzy Kosinski
I do like to live in other people’s homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another’s home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person. – Jerzy Kosinski
There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital. – Jerzy Kosinski
In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter. – Jerzy Kosinski
In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul. – Jerzy Kosinski
It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one’s hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one. – Jerzy Kosinski
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. – Jerzy Kosinski
I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time. – Jerzy Kosinski
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. – Jerzy Kosinski
There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant. – Jerzy Kosinski
It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life. – Jerzy Kosinski
