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It's great to have an enemy. Sharpens your senses.
I think books should have secrets, like people do.
Nothing feels worse than other people's good times.
The rich - they just live in another realm, really.
Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.
It's so hard to make a good tee shot after a birdie.
One of the cool, chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.
By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.
In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.
Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another.
Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.
Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.
Do what the heart commands. The heart is our only guide.
A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.
In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.
Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.
The theme of old age doesn't seem to fascinate Hollywood.
Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape.
You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.
A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is.
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
Hobbies take place in the cellar and smell of airplane glue.
There's something very reassuring... about the written record.
irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.
Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.
I suppose sequels are inevitable for a writer of a certain age.
All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so.
Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.
Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.
The Internet doesn't like you to learn too much about explosives.
Reminiscence and self-parody are part of remaining true to oneself.
There's almost nothing worse to live with than a struggling artist.
I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror.
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.
If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.
Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies.
Thinking it over, I can't locate another artist in the Updike family.
In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.
Adversity in immunological doses has its uses; more than that crushes.
I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.
For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.
Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do not imagine, we view.
It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.
A person believes various things at various times, even on the same day.
The days are short, The sun a spark Hung thin between The dark and dark.
There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.
Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity.
Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.