Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation. One can either see or be seen. – John Updike
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. – John Updike
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one. – John Updike
Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. – John Updike
This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. Its, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television. – Dan Rather