T. S. Garp Quotes in The World According to Garp (1982)

Walt: Daddy what's gradual school?

T. S. Garp: What?

Walt: Gradual school. Mommy say's she teaches at gradual school.

T. S. Garp: Oh Gradual school is where you go to school and you gradually find out you don't want to go to school anymore.

[noticing scantily clad prostitutes]

Jenny Fields: Is that the latest fashion?

T. S. Garp: No, Mom, that's the oldest profession.

[last lines]

T. S. Garp: Remember, Helen.

Helen Holm: What, my love?

T. S. Garp: Everything.

Helen Holm: Yes, my love.

T. S. Garp: [after being told he shouldn't go to his Mom's feminist memorial] I will grieve alone for the rest of my life, but right now I want to be around people who loved her.

T. S. Garp: We'll take the house. Honey, the chances of another plane hitting this house are astronomical. It's been pre-disastered. We're going to be safe here."

[while telling Dean Bodger and her son about his father, who was a brain damaged WW2 veteran with spontaneous erections she was the nurse of]

Jenny Fields: Where was I?

T. S. Garp: He kept having erections.

Jenny Fields: Thank you. He was dying. I wanted a child. It was a good way to have one without the bother of a husband around... who had legal rights to my body. So, one night at work... when the wounded and maimed were all asleep, I went to him. He was asleep. But his erection was there, as always. I removed my undergarments and climbed on top of him. He woke up then. He said the only word other than his name that I ever heard him utter. He said, "good." It didn't take very long, and that once was all that was needed.

Dean Bodger: You raped him! You raped a dying man!

T. S. Garp: [to his infant son in baby carriage] Don't be a baby, Duncan! Say da-da!

[Duncan blows raspberry at Garp]

T. S. Garp: Men die young in my family, Helen!

T. S. Garp: [to his mother Jenny] I never needed a father.