Christopher Isherwood

"Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing elbow to elbow cooking at the same small stove, squeezing past each other on the narrow stairs, shavi…"

"The images which remained in the memory are not in themselves terrible or rigorous: they are of boot-lockers, wooden desks, lists on boards, name-tags in clothes — yes, the name pre-eminently; the nam…"

"To live sanely in Los Angeles you have to cultivate the art of staying awake. You must learn to resist the unceasing hypnotic suggestions of the radio, the billboards, the movies and the newspapers; t…"

"The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel."

"Cabaret Berlin" · Information on Christopher Isherwood and the entertainment of the Weimar era"

"I'm horrified to find, as I look at these diaries of twenty-five years ago or more, that I don't remember who the people were. "Bill and Tony were constantly in and out. We went to La Jolla" — or some…"

"Christopher Isherwood, The Art of Fiction No. 49" interview with W. I. Scobie, in The Paris Review"

"At one campus where I was lecturing, I asked a friend, "How many of my colleagues know I'm gay?" He answered, "All of them." I wasn't surprised. But, just the same, it was kind of spooky, because not …"