John Barth Quotes

All Men Are Loyal, But Their Objects Of Allegiance Are At Best Approximate.

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

Not Every Boy Thrown To The Wolves Becomes A Hero.

Nobody Knew How To Be What They Were Right.

The Horror Of Our History Has Purged Me Of Opinions.

If You Would Learn A Thing, Straightway Declare Yourself A Professor Of It!

The Bible Is Not Man's Word About God, But God's Word About Man.

One Of The Things I Miss About Teaching Is That Students Would Tell Me What I Ought To Read. One Of My Students, Back In The 1960s, Put Me Onto Borges, And I Remember Another Mentioning Flann O'brien's At Swim Two-birds In The Same Way.

It's Easier And Sociabler To Talk Technique Than It Is To Make Art.

You Don't Reach Serendib By Plotting A Course For It. You Have To Set Out In Good Faith For Elsewhere And Lose Your Bearings... Serendipitously.

He Wishes He Had Never Entered The Funhouse. But He Has. Then He Wishes He Were Dead. But He's Not. Therefore He Will Construct Funhouses For Others And Be Their Secret Operator -- Though He Would Rather Be Among The Lovers For Whom Funhouses Are Designed.

History - An Account, Mostly False, Of Events, Mostly Unimportant