John Irving: Someone

“Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you”

“…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.”

“It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.”

“wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.”

“This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on.”

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

“Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.”