John Irving Quote

In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.

There's no beauty without difference and diversity. Love unconditionally.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Nothing amazes me anymore.

My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

I have had no contact with the Chinese government. I only work with journalists.

Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.

I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.

The benefits of forgiveness are limitless.