"There's always something new by looking at..." - 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.”

“We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.”

“I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.”

“I never look at a high point in my career. Everyone thinks about the Spinks fight, but that fight only lasted 91 seconds, so it's hard to say it defined my career.”

“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.”

“Everything in your life right now is a possible episode.”

“If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.”

“The rain comes when the wind calls.”

“Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.”