438 Quotes by John Fowles

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base in both senses greed.

It must essentially remain a novel of adolescence written by a retarded adolescent.

Our stereotyping societies force us to feel more alone. They stamp masks on us and isolate out real selves. We all live in two worlds: the old comfortable man-centred world of absolutes and the harsh real world of relatives. The latter, the relativity reality, terrifies us; and isolates and dwarfs us all.

There are only two races on this planet, the intelligent and the stupid.

Meadows carpeted with buttercups, like slabs of gold in the somber forest.

A lack of sexuality so total that her smart clothes and too heavy make-up made her pathetic; like an unsuccessful geisha.