John Updike

What art offers is space- a certain breathing room for the spirit.

A healthy adult male bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

Life is an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the memories of having read the reviews.

Life is an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the memories of having read the reviews.