“People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the b...” — Paul Auster Quote

“People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.”

“The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.”

“I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.”

“The resistance to science is idiotic.”

“It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.”

“I don't get hassled when I am doing a role that looks idiotic to me.”