In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
John Irving.
“Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.”
“Its natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more ...”
“A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy”
“If you care about something you have to protect it If youre lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”
“My life is a reading list.”
“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.”
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”
“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”