This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on. - John Irving

"Anyone can be sentimental about the nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event; if you don’t believe in the resurrection, you’re not a believer."
“If you don’t believe in Easter,” Owen Meany said. “Don’t kid yourself — Don’t call yourself a Christian.

Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.

Garp discovered that when you are writing something, everything seems related to everything else.