Christopher Isherwood is an English-American author known for his novels and memoirs. One of his notable works is "Mr Norris Changes Trains," which is a satirical novel set in 1930s Berlin. The novel explores the themes of homosexuality and fascism during the rise of Nazi Germany.
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.
Christopher Isherwood – Mr Norris Changes Trains
The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Christopher Isherwood – Mr Norris Changes Trains
One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.
Christopher Isherwood – Mr Norris Changes Trains
Berlin is a skeleton which aches in the cold: it is my own skeleton aching.
Christopher Isherwood – Mr Norris Changes Trains
Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people.
Christopher Isherwood – Mr Norris Changes Trains
It is sometimes very pleasant to take offence, isn’t it?
Christopher Isherwood – Mr Norris Changes Trains
You can’t make people good by law: and without good people you can’t have a good society.
Christopher Isherwood – Mr Norris Changes Trains
For words, when they meet the ear, become spirit and live again.
Christopher Isherwood – Mr Norris Changes Trains
There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
Christopher Isherwood – Mr Norris Changes Trains
But the most dreadful thing about these people is that they are so bored and so boring.
Christopher Isherwood – Mr Norris Changes Trains