"Movies took you right up to the..." - Quote by John Updike

“It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.”

“What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter at around forty, but it is their putting nerves that go, not their swings. For a duffer like [me], the room for improvement is so vast that three lifetimes could be spent roaming the fiarways carving away at it, convinced that perfection lies just over the next rise. And that hope, perhaps, is the kindest bliss of all that golf bestows upon its devotees.”

“My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.”

“Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do not imagine, we view.”

“When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.”

“Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives.”

“The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.”

“I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.”

“And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.”