Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we have been somerwhere together where non-golfers never go.
John UpdikeThe illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when you have footnotes.
John UpdikeThose running tights the young women wear now, so they look like spacewomen, raspberry red and electric green so tight they show every muscle right into the crack between the buttocks, what is the point of them? Display. Young animals need to display.
John UpdikeSo much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.
John Updike