478 Quotes by Pat Conroy

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

Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.

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.

Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman moving into a subway entrance in Harlem. Turn me into something else, writers of the world. Make me Muslim, heretic, hermaphrodite. Put me into a crusader's armor, a cardinal's vestments. Let me feel the pygmy's heartbeat, the queen's breast, the torturer's pleasure, the Nile's taste, or the nomad's thirst. Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.

The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.

People give me looks of pity and ask me why I want to wallow in my disconnection from a very connected world. It is simple. The world seems way too connected to me now. It seems to be ruining the lives of teenagers and bringing out the bestial cruelty in those who can hide their vileness under the mask of some idiotic pseudonym. I like to sit alone and think about things. Solitude is as precious as coin silver and it takes labor to attain it.

One must always forgive another's passion.