Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing
11 quotes
"People go their whole lives wanting to be admired for their hidden qualities."
"Intelligence and effort can be no compensation for ugliness."
"I have learned that the libido, like Elvis and jealousy, never dies. I know copulators of eighty-five. Who said you need an erection, a body or an orgasm for sex?"
"Sex is like art: if you know what you’re doing, you don’t know what you’re doing."
"I don’t like being left for long struggling with my dangerous self."
"The past looks worse the closer you look at it."
"Whoever thought that pleasure makes you happy?"
"I am dust and my story ends here."
"Old age is the new childhood."
"Act – make an event. Smash the coordinates and see where the smithereens fly. Let in the madness, and be sure to be a danger to oneself and others. Too much thinking turns you into that fool Hamlet."
"I’m using Mao as my inspiration. “Cast away illusions. Prepare for struggle.” I’m back in business, baby. You don’t know you’re stuck until you get moving."