"Life is a roller coaster, you have..." - Quote by John Updike

“Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.”

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

“Dream golf is simply golf played on another course. We chip from glass tables onto moving stairways; we swing in a straightjacket, through masses of cobweb, and awaken not with any sense of unjust hazard but only with a regret that the round can never be completed, and that one of our phantasmal companions has kept the scorecard.”

“To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.”

“What can books of men that wiveIn a dragon-guarded land,Paintings of the dolphin-drawnSea-nymphs in their pearly wagonsDo, but awake a hope to live...?”

“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.”

“There is no breakthrough without a breakdown.”

“Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.”

“When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there's a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we're going to see things through to the finish or quit.”