114 Quotes by John Barth

What a sentence, everything was wrong from the outset.

Intellectual discussion, after all, is the real joy of the winter of life, when other pleasures have flown, as it were.

What I’ve learned is that the muses’ decision to sing or not to sing is not based on the elevation of your moral purpose – they will sing or not, regardless.

The transaction will enable us to become a single source of integrated products and services that building owners want in order to optimize comfort and energy efficiency.

Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she’d see him entire, like a poem or story, and find his words so valuable after all that when he confessed his apprehensions she would explain why they were in fact the very things that made him precious to her... and to Western Civilization! There was no such girl, the simple truth being.

When you’re lost, the smartest thing to do is stay put till you’re found, hollering if necessary.