I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst and I'm not an intellectual.

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

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.

I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful.

If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one. But we are a country - USA - that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.

Human sexuality makes farcical our most serious intentions.

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