You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.
John IrvingAmbition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adultโin any wayโsomething in your childhood dies.
John IrvingHere in St. Cloudโs,โ Dr. Larch wrote, โ I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. It is my experience that practically everything is left up to chance much of the time; men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God โ we should seize those moments. There wonโt be may
John Irving