A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward.
John UpdikeMany men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.
John UpdikeEach day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?
John UpdikeBaseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and sour-faced reporters that crowd around the dugouts can quite smother the exhilarating spaciousness and grace of this impudently relaxed sport, a game of innumerable potential redemptions and curious disappointments.
John Updike