A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other peoples patience. – John Updike
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. – John Updike
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. – 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