As Garp put it, 'You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.' Even if these so-called endings and beginnings are illusions.

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

They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.

In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?

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

...the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar.

When everyone is poor you don't know you're poor. My father worked so some of the boys thought I was actually rich.

The future is a world limited by ourselves-in it we discover only what concerns us.

I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They're about other people.

Stop rehearsing life's failures. Use your beautiful imagination to visualize success.

Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser - having a healthy ego, or high opinion of yourself, is a real positive in life!

Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them?

Acting like everyone who's been successful is bad and because you're rich you're bad, I don't understand it.

Sometimes I've looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn't look better as a hat.

Buying stock is exactly the same thing as going to a casino, only with no cocktail service.

I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.