Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.

- Christopher Isherwood

By helping yourself, you are helping humankind. By helping humankind, you are helping yourself. That's the law of all spiritual progress.

- Christopher Isherwood

I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it.

- Christopher Isherwood

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

- Christopher Isherwood

I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.

- Christopher Isherwood

A few times in my life I've had moments of absolute clarity, when for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than…

- Christopher Isherwood

Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.

- Christopher Isherwood

We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.

- Christopher Isherwood

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

- Christopher Isherwood