It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
John IrvingTo each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.
John IrvingI will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings.
John Irving