Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adultโin any wayโsomething in your childhood dies.
John IrvingLife," 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.
John IrvingDon't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.
John Irving