478 Quotes by Pat Conroy

He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart.

Gonzaga was the kind of place you’d not even think about loving until you’d left it for a couple of years.

A nation of unhappy teachers makes for a sadder and more endangered America.

It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.

You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.

It’s the great surprise of my life that I ended up loving [my father] so much.

Losing well was a gift, but winning well is this stuff of the authentic manhood.

Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.

Upstaged by a schizophrenic, Dallas said. The story of my life.