Status Updates From Cockpit: A Novel

"The next morning, just as the sun was coming over the humped, pitted sand, I noticed the sheriff’s blue car slow down as it passed. I wondered if he noticed how naturally the new mounds joined the rolling dunes that stretched all the way to the Indian reservation."

Kosinski, Jerzy. Cockpit (p. 206). Grove Atlantic. Kindle Edition.

"The girl and the other judge told me they had decided to end the jumps but that I would be paid what I had won. When I asked if the girl would walk back to the town with me, she looked at me coldly and refused."

Kosinski, Jerzy. Cockpit (p. 178). Grove Atlantic. Kindle Edition.

“Have you ever been a target before?” he asked, getting up with difficulty. “Many times,” I said.
“Is that so?” he mused.

Kosinski, Jerzy. Cockpit (p. 145). Grove Atlantic. Kindle Edition.

"While some invisible physical force launched the potter’s son into the air, an opposite force drove me directly back down to earth with a humiliating thump."

Kosinski, Jerzy. Cockpit (p. 121). Grove Atlantic. Kindle Edition.

"Perhaps the explanations for my behavior, if there are any, are rooted in an area of my past to which I have no access."

Kosinski, Jerzy. Cockpit (p. 110). Grove Atlantic. Kindle Edition.

"While I was in the Service, I appropriated a number of eighteenth-century snuff and perfume boxes. They were all made of gold, platinum or silver, and were decorated with enamel and precious stones."

Kosinski, Jerzy. Cockpit (p. 96). Grove Atlantic. Kindle Edition.

I paid him in cash and he cautioned me, “Don’t expect miracles.”

“I never do,” I said.

Kosinski, Jerzy. Cockpit (p. 79). Grove Atlantic. Kindle Edition.

"Like the elusive substance that had once healed my wound, now the State had saved me without my consent."

Kosinski, Jerzy. Cockpit (p. 15). Grove Atlantic. Kindle Edition.