Jim Porter

“They had been drinking. In the society of Tarbox there was no invitation more flattering than to share, like this, another couple’s intimacy, to partake in their humorous déshabille, their open quarrels and implicit griefs.”
― John Updike, Couples

“The environmental system of the Earth would collapse if the attempt were made to supply all human beings alive today with a European style of living. To suggest that such an increase in living standards is possible for a world population twice the present size by the early part of the next century is preposterous.”
― James E. Lovelock, The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis & The Fate of Humanity

“He lay on his back like a town suspended from a steeple. He”
― John Updike, Couples

“What they do mention, if asked, is their surprise at how easy it is to die. The pattern of ordinary life, in which so much stays the same from one day to the next, disguises the fragility of its fabric.”
― David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming