Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
John UpdikeI'm not against TV; I don't go on the morning talk shows because I'm not invited. If I was, I might go.
John UpdikeFour years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.
John Updike"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put to me by the aunt-in-law who had moments before placed a golf club in my virgin grip. I was twenty-five, and had spent my youth in a cloisterd precinct of teh middle class where golf was a rumoured something, like champagne breakfasts and divorce, that the rich did.
John UpdikeNothing seems to matter quite as much. I no longer think about death in the concentrated way I once did. I don't know? you get so old and you sort of give up in some way. You've had your period of angst, your period of religious desperation, and you've arrived at a philosophical position where you don't need, or you can't bear, to look at it.
John Updike