John Barton Quotes

There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.

I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.

There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them. They are all fine people, and they had no idea how it would turn out.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader

Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes.

The beauty of life is not knowing.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.

All I know is a door into the dark

The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.

It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.

Anybody who claims that they know where this whole thing is all going is just lying.

what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly.

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

As much as I feel sad, I think that not knowing is what really bothers me.

The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.

I have nothing. My model is I have nothing figured out, and I'm starting with some little nugget and hoping that it will talk back to me enough to let it grow.

It is not possible to define. Nothing has ever been finally found out. Because there is nothing final to find out.

When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything.

Only time - whatever that may be - will tell.

Existence is a mystery , and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation .

Embrace the wisdom of uncertainty.