“Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a wri...” — Jerzy Kosinski Quote

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.

In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.

There's no doubt about it that Mubarak has been indeed a partner with Israel, but there's also no doubt about something else. Conditions in Egypt were getting worse and worse, and it was almost just a matter of time before the popular uprising started.

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

We need to make sure pre-existing conditions are taken care of, but propping up Obamacare, a failing system, is not the way to do it.

The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.