Pat Conroy

“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”

“Great teachers had great personalities and that the greatest teachers had outrageous personalities. I did not like decorum or rectitude in a classroom; I preferred a highly oxygenated atmosphere, a climate of intemperance, rhetoric, and feverish melodrama. And I wanted my teachers to make me smart....”

“I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.”

“Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.”

“Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.”