If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don’t have one. But we are a country – USA – that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.
JOHN IRVINGIf you feel strongly about people having abortions, don’t have one. But we are a country – USA – that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.
JOHN IRVINGMy brain is sending poison to my heart.
JOHN IRVINGbut good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
JOHN IRVINGHe also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
JOHN IRVINGThere is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
JOHN IRVINGIt happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
JOHN IRVINGThe unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me.
JOHN IRVINGIn this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.
JOHN IRVINGDon’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
JOHN IRVINGIt is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
JOHN IRVINGThe former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.
JOHN IRVINGLife forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
JOHN IRVINGLife is an X-rated soap opera.
JOHN IRVINGIt’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
JOHN IRVING… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
JOHN IRVINGThe building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of.
JOHN IRVING