This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on.

Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.

THERE'S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,' he told the voters. 'IF YOU'RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!

Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water... remarks that sank, like truth, to the bottom of the pool where they would remain untouchable.

Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.