A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other peoples patience. – John Updike
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. – John Updike
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. – John Updike
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