Quotes by : John Fowles

Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt....

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.

Sometimes to return is a vulgarity.

...and his eyes had that splendid innocence, that opaque blue candour of the satanically fallen. ~ The....

Sometimes I almost pity them. I think I have a freedom they cannot understand. No insult, no blame can....

When I was going on one day in the car about not having any close friends - using my favourite metaphor:....

A total stranger, and one not of one's sex, is often the least prejudiced judge.

In essence the renaissance is simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

But he was absolutely alone. No one ever wrote to him. Visited him. Totally alone. And I believe the....

Some people would say- you're only a drop, your word-breaking is only a drop, it wouldn't matter. But....