I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isnt enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasnt prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food. – Frank McCourt
The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher. – Frank McCourt
We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely. – Frank McCourt
Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely. – Frank McCourt
In depression…faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no rememdy will come, not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul. – William Styron