How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.
Gregory MaguireTo consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows
Gregory MaguireThe future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.
Gregory Maguire