"Really the moment I decided I wanted to do art seriously, I left art school. I wanted to be with people who were interested in the same things I was: popular culture."

“I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'”

“It is really rather foolish to so often feel we have to say something brilliant and enlightening to someone who is suffering. Job makes it clear that simple companionship is what suffering people often crave - not a course in philosophy.”

“I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer,”

“Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It was heart-wrenching for her granddaughter to find this out.”

“If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”

Source : John Irving (2012). “The World According To Garp”, p.605, Random House

“The republic stands for truth and honour. For all that is noblest in our race. By truth and honour, principle and sacrifice alone will Ireland be free.”

“We have to keep our eye on inflation, but so far inflation remains reasonably in check on the global stage.”

“A lot of times I would go into a room and audition for whatever sitcom it was and they would expect me to do sort of what my dad was doing and I am not him so they would be disappointed and I would feel nervous and not know exactly how to do it.”