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
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. – John Updike
Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. – John Updike