You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. - John Irving

But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.

If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

What we witnessed with the death of Kennedy was the triumph of television; what we saw with his assassination, and with his funeral, was the beginning of television's dominance of our culture — for television is at its most solemnly self-serving and at its mesmerizing best when it is depicting the untimely deaths of the chosen and the golden. It is as witness to the butchery of heroes in their prime — and of all holy-seeming innocents — that televisions achieves its deplorable greatness.