Today is Paul Auster appreciation day. Every thing he writes to me is gold. Every coming is yet another coming of age - he knows it isnât easy at any age, any time, and any place. He understands.
âWhen a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.â
âIt always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don& #39;t know half as much as I think I do.â
âIn the end, each life is no more than the
sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of ïŹukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.â
sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of ïŹukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.â
âBetty died of a broken heart. Some people laugh when they hear that phrase, but that& #39;s because they don& #39;t know anything about the world. People die of broken hearts. It happens every day, and it will go on happening to the end of time.â
â[T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, but in the end books are not luxuries so much as necessities, and reading is an addiction he has no wish to be cured of.â
âReal love...is when you get as much pleasure from giving pleasure as you do from receiving it.â
âIn the long run, stories are probably no less valuable than money, but in the short run they have their decided limitations."