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Pat Conroy Quotes

Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 26, 1945 - March 4, 2016

Topics

Family Love Wounded Ways Came

I admire Johann Strauss a lot. I believe he was a genius of his time.

Time Believe Genius Admire I Believe

I've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea.

Time War Better Australia Arguing

I just think there is a part of your brain that is supposed to be afraid of getting old, even if you're not really.

Brain Think You Getting Old Old

My first responsibility is to keep America safe.

Jeff Fortenberry

Responsibility America First Safe

Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street, never had a mother and a father to love them, to protect them, to teach them right from wrong and lead them out of crime and gangs and stuff like that.

Love Father Mother Wrong Meet Never

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

Man Long Vegas Argument Wheel Over

Not everybody's confident their whole life.

Life Confident Whole Everybody

I think jokes can actually go to places that drama can't.

Think Drama Go Places Jokes I Think

Sometimes I do pinch myself about the life I've had.

Life Myself Sometimes Pinch About

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

Community Death People Church White

Certainly I'm passionate and driven and quite relentless when I want something.

Want Passionate Relentless Something

The kind of improv that I'm particularly addicted to is the kind that... aims at creating a momentary, fragmentary experience that has a totality to it. It's kind of like fireworks. It's the more ephemeral of art forms - once it's gone, it's gone, baby.

Art Experience Baby Creating Kind

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