John FowlesThinkers

The Answer is always a form of death.

Baseball is chess made flesh, a highly stylized medieval war substitute.

Cynicism is the masking of a failure to cope an impotence, in short with the added irony that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

Duty is largely a matter of pretending that the trivial is critical.

Prayer is the most odious of concealed narcissism.

Praying is the most odious form of concealed narcissism.

The Renaissance is an epoch that was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters..

War is loved by men because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.