Quotes by : John Williams

But William Stoner knew of the world in a way that few of his younger colleagues could understand. Deep....

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....

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

she seemed happy, though perhaps a bit desperately so

The young man, who does not know the future, sees life as a kind of epic adventure, an Odyssey through....

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

It seems to me that the moralist is the most useless and contemptible of creatures. He is useless in....