Paul Bowles Quotes

Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as non-existent. One year was like another year. Eventually everything would happen.

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

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

...before there can be change there must be discontent.

That was one of the troubles with the Istiqlal, with all politics: you talked about people as though they were not really people, as though they were only things, numbers, animals, perhaps, but not really people.

If you could not have freedom you could still have vengeance.

The soul is the weariest part of the body.

Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.