Tom Zsolt

“I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.”
― John Updike, Couples

“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”
― John Updike

“Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.”
― John Updike

“The thing about her is, she’s good-natured. He knew it the second he saw her standing by the parking meters. He could just tell from the soft way her belly looked. With women, you keep bumping against them, because they want different things, they’re a different race. Either they give, like a plant, or scrape, like a stone. In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman’s good nature.”
― John Updike, Rabbit, Run