John Irving Good Quotations

It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such perfectly good sense to Owen Meany and me, but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

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

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

I was brought up in a community, in a family that valued such things as good manners, and I still do.

but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

I suppose I try to look for those things where the world turns on you. It's every automobile accident, every accident at a party, you're having a good time until suddenly you're not.