If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one.

when however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is always going to be trouble.

But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.

In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.

The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.

The object of war is to survive it.

In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.