John Fowles

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

An answer is always a form of death.