"I know more about what it's like..." - Quote 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.”

“It's great to have gray hair. Ask anyone who's bald.”

“Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.”

“At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass”

“Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.”

“True friendship is a plant of slow growth.”

“A model should be as simple as it can be but no simpler”