Paul Auster Quote

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only p...

I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

The problem with a philosophy or a belief is that you soon start changing the facts to fit it.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

It is man and not the Bible that needs correcting. Greater and more careful scholarship has shown that apparent contradictions were caused by incorrect translations, rather than divine inconsistencies...

You may delay, but time will not.

People lack morals, good moral character is important in every aspect of your life. Honesty and Integrity opens the door. Your character allows others to see you for who you truly are. Make your first...

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.