A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other peoples patience. – John Updike
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – 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
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – John Updike