It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts.
John UpdikeA healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
John UpdikeDream golf is simply golf played on another course. We chip from glass tables onto moving stairways; we swing in a straightjacket, through masses of cobweb, and awaken not with any sense of unjust hazard but only with a regret that the round can never be completed, and that one of our phantasmal companions has kept the scorecard.
John Updike