The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.

People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.

I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.

In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases

You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.