Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
John Barth, fully John Simmons Barth
American Philosophical Novelist and Short-Story Writer
"Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people."
"More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations."
"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. "
"Like an ox-cart driving in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back."