Garp drank the beer and wondered if everything was an anticlimax.

It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules.

If you asked me one day, I might say, "Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious." If you asked me another day, I'd just say flat out, "No."

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.

I always know more about the ending, even the aftermath to the ending, than I know about the beginning. And so there's a construction that works from back to front.

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.