"I know more about what it's like..." - Quote by John Updike
I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.
More by John Updike
“Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback.”
“Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.”
“The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.”