Quotes by : John Williams

In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky,....

He was himself, and he knew what he had been.

You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are....

Sometimes Edith came into the room and sat on the bed beside him and they talked. They talked of trivial....

He had come to that moment in his age when there occurred to him, with increasing intensity, a question....

But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done....

The past gathered out of the darkness where it stayed, and the dead raised themselves to live before....

While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been....

A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been thinking....

For my friends do not desert me, and life stays; for those two things I must be grateful.