“Garp drank the beer and wondered if everything was an anticlimax..”

“Bonkie bit Garp!"Garp bit Bonkie”

“In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases”

“In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.”

“but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.”

“don't worry - so what if there is no life after death? There is life after Garp, believe me.”

“Death, it seems," Garp wrote, "does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.”