John Fowles

“We are all puppet masters and puppets.”

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

“The past is a country from which we have all emigrated.”

“To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.”

“An answer is always a form of death.”

“We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”

“The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.”

“The world is not a globe of knowledge, it is a globe of men. It is not a globe of men, it is a globe of illusions.”

“The purpose of the writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”

“Real loneliness is not the absence of another, but the absence of the other in myself.”

“She is one of those people who are born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated Beatrice-like ideals.”

“I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.”

“Art is a form of love.”

“The dead live.”

“All utopias are castles in the air.”

“Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods.”