Quotes from John Updike, Rabbit, Run

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks.

But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't—whichever seems likelier to win an effect.