It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian. – John Updike
What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike
It rots a writers brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily youre well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician. – John Updike
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. – John Updike
I just think that Ill never have plastic surgery if Im not in front of the camera. If you make your living selling this thing, which is the way you look, then maybe you do it. But trust me, the minute Im directing or producing and not starring, I would never even think of it. – Rebecca De Mornay