Quotes from Hanif Kureishi

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted

So badly did he not want to fuck it up, he could only fuck it up.

Security and safety were the reward of dullness.

I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another! And what pleasure!

But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.

One would hope, as well that intimacy would leave more of a mark, that more of it would remain. But it doesn't. You just end up thinking, who is this person?

My pleasures disappeared with my vices.

Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.

If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.