"What you lose as you age is..." - Quote by John Updike

“In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications must remain in the dark. An invented figure like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary emerges fully into the light of understanding, which brings with it identification, sympathy and pity.”

“I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest.”

“Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer and weep.”

“I'm getting so old my insurance company sends me 1/2 a calendar!”

“Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span;Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man;Delight becomes death-longing if all longing else be vain.”

“I don't think women outlive men, Doctor. It only seems longer.”

“The only danger in Friendship is that it will end.”

“You never gain something but that you lose something.”

“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”