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

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

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

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.

I have seen Ikpea too. Ikpea is not dead

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

I know gymnastics. It's always been a subjective appreciation.

I begin to think that none are so bold as the timid, when they are fairly roused.

Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today.

My nature just changes.

There's no denial that one's gender orientation is certainly a core characteristic of any person, but it's not the only one.

I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.

Because there's one thing stronger than magic: sisterhood.