A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
John UpdikeWhat would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us.
John UpdikeI'm somewhat shy about the brutal facts of being a carnivore. I don't like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburger and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing.
John UpdikePeople go around mourning the death of God; it's the death of sssin that bothers me. Without ssin, people aren't people any more, they're just ssoul-less sheep.
John Updike