Quotes by : John Crowley

Oh God how subtle he would have to be, how cunning... No paragraph, no phrase even of the thousands the....

Almost as soon as it was lit it began to sound as though it were running down, but in fact it would continue....

Novelty. Security. Novelty wouldn't be a bad title. It had the grandness of abstraction, alerting the....

It must take a lot of self-discipline,' she said.'Oh, I don't know. I don't have much.' He felt himself....

There was after all no mystery in the end of love, no mystery but the mystery of love itself, which was....

Divorced?''Separated.'He tested his thumb against the pricks of the rose. 'Women. They say you got all....

Time, I think, is like walking backward away from something: say, from a kiss. First there is the kiss;....

Why, what is it, how can flesh and blood come up with such stuff, how can flesh feel it. My lord life....

When he was in college, a famous poet made a useful distinction for him. He had drunk enough in the poet's....

She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage....