In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?

In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases

They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.

As Garp put it, 'You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.' Even if these so-called endings and beginnings are illusions.

...nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

...the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

God save me from fools with a little philosophy—no one is more difficult to reach.

Anger and resentment are problems for our understanding and vision. They happen when we are away from our real purpose and mission.

You have some balls."Frankie hated that expression, ever since Zada had pointed out to her that it equates courage with the male equipment...

Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of: Wherefore, let they voice, Rise like a fountain for me night and day.

If we never felt sorrow, we'd never recognize bliss.

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

The front line with ISIS isn't just in Iraq and Syria, it's in Kennedy Airport and the Rio Grande. Border security is national security.

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.