The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking .

You can learn a lot from your lovers$$$ but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer$$$ and you learn more from them.

A novelist is a doctor who sees only terminal cases.

It's because even a good man can't always be right$$$ that we need ... rules.

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.

Garp drank the beer and wondered if everything was an anticlimax..

If we couldn't get strong from what we lose$$$ and what we miss$$$ and what we want and can't have$$$ then we couldn't ever get strong enough.

It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.

Half my life is an act of revision.