John Irving: Quotes about people

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

“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.”

“When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what's it matter what they did to you?”

“All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished; it was simply feeling so complete.”

“Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.”

“How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.”

“Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.”

“The kind of people claiming to be in communication with God today … they are enough to drive a real Christian crazy!”

“(In reference to Vermont's Act 60): This is Marxism. It's leveling everything by decimating what works … It's that vindictive 'We've suffered, and now we're going to take money from your kid and watch you squirm'… There's a minority which is an open target in this country which no one protects, and that's rich people.”