John Fowles Quotes

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him, his imagination was always ready to fill the gap.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.