John Irving Quote

It is man and not the Bible that needs correcting. Greater and more careful scholarship has shown that apparent contradictions were caused by incorrect translations, rather than divine inconsistencies...

Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...

art is risk made visible

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

I have found so much beauty in the dark,as I have found a lot of horror in the light.

Give yourself a great self-respect to know who you are then your confidence will shine on you

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap...

Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.

A bird that fears turbulence will never know how high it can fly.