Darren Richman

“When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who’d lost children wrote to me. ‘’I lost one, too,’’ they told me. I confessed to them that I hadn’t lost any children. I’m just a father with a good imagination. In my imagination, I lose my children every day. (afterword)”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.”
― Russell Brand, My Booky Wook

“A woman is a funny animal.”
― James M. Cain, Double Indemnity