"Ted Seabrooke, my wrestling coach, had a kind of Nietzschean effect on me in terms of not just his estimation of my l…"

"He wrote Helen that "a part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around you who's enough like yourself …"

"Imagining something is better than remembering something."

"Imagination, he realized, came harder than memory."

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

"To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread, we were just a family. In a family even exaggeration…"

"You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed."

"Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual."

"Your memory is a monster; you forget — it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides thi…"

"Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean—make sure they know what they m…"