Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.
John UpdikeIn a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.
John UpdikeThe essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
John UpdikeWhat more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?
John Updike