Quotes by Harry Crews

• Survival is triumph enough.
• Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.
• What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.
• He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.