Quotes from Maureen Howard

There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.

The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the last-ditch aristocrats of Evelyn Waugh.

I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help.

To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It is finally the only story we give to someone we love.

The part we play is not as we want it, but as we are made-with the genitals God gave us.

From above, start with the privileged view.

It is so difficult to endow our words with meaning, to talk sense to each other.