John Barth Quotes

Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and overlook the motive and of learned folk to d...

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

Now many crises in people’s lives occur because the hero role that they’ve assumed for one situation...

There's a great difficulty in makingchoices if you have any imagination at all. Faced with such a mu...

Now many crises in people’s lives occur because the hero role that they’ve assumed for one situation...

Ah, God, it were an easy Matter to choose a Calling hadone all Time to live in! I should be fifty Ye...

In life,” he said, “there are no essentially major or minor characters. To that extent, all fiction ...

people still fall in love, and out, yes, in and out, and out and in, and they please each other, and...

The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained t...

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or...

Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him e...

The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it's you I'm addressing, who else, fr...

Unhappily, things get clearer as we go along. I perceive that I have no body. What's less, I've been...

The difference ‘twixt poet and coxcomb is precisely that the latter stops gaps like a ship fitter ca...

This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.

More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles bills and proclamations.