You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

- John Irving

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

- John Irving

Keep passing the open windows.

- John Irving

It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.

- John Irving

We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.

- John Irving

People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.

- John Irving

If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.

- John Irving

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing i…

- John Irving

Human sexuality makes farcical our most serious intentions.

- John Irving