More From John Updike
- "A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience."
- "Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them."
- "The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."
More In Money
- "In one century, we’ve added 28 years to our average life span – a change so rapid that our brains couldn’t possibly have evolved to accommodate it."― Martha Beck
- "Well, I needed the work – that’s the honest answer. I haven’t worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money."― Gary Oldman
- "Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted."― Richard Wagner