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 UpdikeStudents present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.
John UpdikeThe United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between the fantastic and the drab seems too narrow.
John Updike