Arthur Koestler Book Quotations

To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like pate de foie gras.

The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through contamination by invisible agents and innocent germ carriers, by the most varied forms of contact, or simply by breathing the common air.

In my youth I regarded the universe as an open book, printed in the language of equations, whereas now it appears to me as a text written in invisible ink, of which in our rare moments of grace we are able to decipher a small segment.

The cell door slammed behind Rubishov.