Quotes About Paul Auster

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

Eds atbildot kaut ko no?urd un pied?v? Bovenam aps?sties, negaid?ti piemin?dams fragmentu no "Voldenas", kad ar žestu nor?da uz vien?go kr?slu istab?. Toro teica, ka vi?a m?j? esot tr?s kr?sli, Eds ieminas. Viens vientul?bai, otrs draudz?bai un trešais sabiedr?bai. Man ir tikai viens kr?sls vientul?bai. Ja v?l piemer kl?t gultu, varb?t san?k divi draudz?bai.

In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant. And

The tone of every book is slightly different; there's a music that each has that is distinct from all the others.

I would not go so far as to say that he was a good person … but Boris had his own set of rules and he stuck to them. Unlike everyone else I had met here, he managed to flat above his circumstances … It was as if he had imagined every possibility in advance, and therefore he was never surprised by what happened. Inherent in his attitude was a pessimism so deep, so devastating, so fully in tune with the facts, that it actually made him cheerful.