"Humor is my default mode...." - Quote by John Updike

“The days are short,The sun a sparkHung thin betweenThe dark and dark.”

“Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity.”

“Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.”

“The laws of gravity cannot be held responcible for people falling in love.”

“Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.”

“The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean.”

“I've been called a recluse. There's definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.”

“In every adult there lurks a child— an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole.”

“A room containing Philip Roth, I have noticed, begins hilariously to whirl and pulse with a mix of rebelliousness and constriction that I take to be Oedipal.”