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

What was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school I was fascinated by.

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished; it was simply feeling so complete.

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

Life," Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory.

My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!