I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

You don't have to be in the habit of going to church to listen to such a literary minister; you don't have to be a believer to be moved by Mr. Buechner's faith.

If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.

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

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.