Jack Sallay

“Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.”
― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

“The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work. I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.”
― Richard Yates, The Easter Parade