John Irving

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

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.