I’m reminded, almost every day, of my favorite lines from Shakespeare—what Edgar says at the end of King Lear. The weight of this sad time we must obey: Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. It’s true that The World According to Garp is a protest novel. Yet, when I was writing it, I never imagined I’d still be protesting forty years later. June 2018
Also from the updated forward. Sad and true.
