Quotes by : John Barth

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,....