The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen. - John Irving

It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability — there is something different about the way they comprehend unfamiliar material — but I fail to see how this disability is improved by psychiatric consultation. What seems to be lacking is a technical ability that those of us called ‘good students’ are born with. Someone should concretely study these skills and teach them. What does a shrink have to do with the process?

"If you live long enough, Bill - it's a world of epilogues," Richard Abbott said.

"Bonkie bit Garp!"
Garp bit Bonkie