Quotes About Paul Bowles

Writing is harmless, and it keeps me in dinners and out of trouble.

You want us all to be snake-charmers and scorpion-eaters, he raged, at one point in their conversation ... Naturally, Eunice replied in her most provoking manner. It would be far preferable to being a nation of tenth-rate pseudo-civilized rug-sellers.

You can't discipline the whole country. Still, Moss said dreamily, that's what must be done before they can ever accomplish anything.

It was one of the charms of the International Zone that you could get anything you wanted if you paid for it. Do anything, too, for that matter; - there were no incorruptibles. It was only a question of price.

Tunner's presence created a situation, however slight, which kept him from entering into the reflective state he considered essential.