Quotes by : John Barth

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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