. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .
John IrvingNewspapers are even worse for me than ice cream; headlines, and the big issues that generate the headlines, are pure fat.
John IrvingIt seems to me that a great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour.
John IrvingIn 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.
John IrvingThe only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.
John IrvingI don’t have to say to you or anyone in our WRESTLING community that we are a small world unto ourselves and there is often a big difference in how much we love and understand each other and how little we’re understood or appreciated by people who spend their weekends watching basketball.
John Irving