Jane Bowles Quotes

The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.

I feel that I have done everything, absolutely everything wrong, but perhaps something nice will happen anyway.

I am a writer and I want to write.

Houses! I hate houses. I like public places. Houses break your heart.

I don't judge people by their bodies. Even when I was a young girl I liked men for their minds. Now that I'm middle-aged I see how right I was.

I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren't cut out to do.

Sisterly love is one of the few boons in this life.

Even then she wore the look of certain fanatics who think of themselves as leaders without once having gained the respect of a single human being.

My father predicted everything when he said I would procrastinate until I died.

I am so wily and feminine that I could live by your side for a lifetime and deceive you afresh each day.

The face of victory often resembles the face of defeat.

Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see.

Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.

..it is against my entire code, but then, I have never even begun to use my code, although I judge everything by it.

It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst.

A guardian angel comes when you are very young, and gives you special dispensation. From what? From the world. Yours might be luck. Mine is money.

I fear nomads. I am afraid of them and afraid for them too.