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.

It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.

How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.

Grant us safe lodging, and holy rest,” Mrs. Grogan was saying, “and peace at last.” Amen, thought Wilbur Larch, the Saint of St. Cloud’s, who was seventy-something, and an ether addict, and who felt that he’d come a long way and still had a long way to go.

All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let's just leave them be. Don't judge them. You are not superior to them - don't put them down.

We invent what we love and what we fear.

My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.