Aidan McDonald

“Adam, we can’t make being safe the guiding principle of our lives. We have to be who we are—we can only do what we do, sweetie.”
― John Irving, The Last Chairlift

“This particular view will be better understood if I say that truly hopeless thought just happens to be defined by the opposite criteria and that the tragic work might be the work that, after all future hope is exiled, describes the life of a happy man. The more exciting life is, the more absurd is the idea of losing it.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“How I live matters more than what I do. I have ambitions for the quality of how I live; I have no ambitions for making money”
― John Irving, The 158-Pound Marriage

“I am familiar with the ways we talk ourselves into things. One of the ways is by pretending we are talking ourselves out of them.”
― John Irving, The 158-Pound Marriage