John Banville World Quotations

Given the world that he created, it would be an impiety against God to believe in him.

And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.

These days I must take the world in small and carefully measured doses. It is a sort of homeopathic cure I am undergoing, though I am not certain what this cure is meant to mend. Perhaps I am learning to live amongst the living again. Practising, I mean. But no, that is not it. Being here is just a way of not being anywhere.

The world is not real for me until it has been pushed through the mesh of language.

The trouble with you, Vic," he said, "is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too many visitors allowed in.