“Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just did...” — John Irving Quote

“Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.”

“Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.”

“Although he knew all the best — or, at least, the least boring — stories in the Bible, Mr. Merrill was most appealing because he reassured us that doubt was the essence of faith, and not faith’s opposite.”