Jerzy Kosinski

“The principle of art is to subordinate the real to the random.”

“The world is what you make of it. If it doesn't fit, you make it.”

“I am not an autobiographical writer, though I have given parts of myself to characters.”

“The camera is a mirror with a memory, but it cannot think.”

“All of us are watchers—of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway—but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.”

“Life is a state of mind.”

“For me, writing is a solitary fiction, a way of keeping myself company.”

“One's life is an act of creation.”

“A writer is a man who has taught his mind to misbehave.”

“The garden of which I dreamed, and where I still dream, is a place where there is no time.”