Christopher > Christopher's Quotes

“The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that, it's having the ability to recall such moments in their totality, to contemplate them like jewels.”
― Paul Bowles, The Spider's House

“Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really...How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”
― Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

“...before there can be change there must be discontent.”
― Paul Bowles, The Spider's House

“Whenever he was en route from one place to another, he was able to look at his life with a little more objectivity than usual. it was often on trpis that he thought most clearly, and made the decisions that he could not reach when he was stationary.”
― Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

“Once you accept the fact that life isn't fun, you'll be much happier," his mother said to him.”
― Paul Bowles, Let It Come Down

“One of these days the future will be here, and you won't be ready for it.”
― Paul Bowles, The Spider's House