One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true – John Fowles
We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. – John Fowles
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. – John Fowles
Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man. – John Fowles
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. – J. G. Ballard