Jerzy Kosinski Quotes

After being away from it for so long, it's really nice to go out and have 10- or 15,000 people show up and enjoy it. It leaves you with a very good feeling.

I really like school. I like going to school, which sounds a bit stupid, but I do. And I love the social aspect of it: it keeps me grounded, and it's nice to have that routine.

A lot of gaming and a lot of interaction is no longer physical; it's all digital and at a distance. There's this innate, tribal need of the people to have face time with other people and play together in person. I think there's been this rediscovery of the joy of playing with people around the table.

People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.

After tea, we discussed a variety of topics before the fire; and Mrs. Micawber was good enough to sing us (in a small, thin, flat voice, which I remembered to have considered, when I first knew her, the very table-beer of acoustics) the favourite ballads of "The Dashing White Sergeant", and "Little Tafflin".

When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along.

Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.

But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party

May I suggest a drinking game where everytime I do a ridiculously long awkward blink, someone does a shot of some kind of alcohol?

Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.

The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.

the person talking to you never looks directly at you, but rather around the room, searching for the answer to the universal cocktail party question, 'Who's here tonight?

At a brunch potluck, I realize that I do, in fact, hate everybody.

What's your name?" Donald." Hi, Donald, missed you at the wienie roast.

The tavern will compare favorably with the church. The church is the place where prayers and sermons are delivered, but the tavernis where they are to take effect, and if the former are good, the latter cannot be bad.

That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.

On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.

The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That's cool.

Even on the old show, we would maybe not all be in the scene. Sometimes there would be a penthouse scene and everyone would get together. But, even in that context, it would be because somebody was missing.

the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.

Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table.

I’ve never really had a party before.” “Why did you have one now?” I say, just to keep him talking. He gives a half laugh. “I thought if I had a party, you would come.

Half of them kept repeating my name, trying to get it right, while the other half laughed. But they were harmless. Fun drunks make a nice addition to any party: Not looking to fight. Not looking to score. Just looking to get drunk and laugh. I remember those guys. Like the mascots of the party. "Clay! Whatcha doon here? Bah-ha-ha-ha!

The moment someone says, 'Hey, everyone, listen to the words in this song,' your party is over.