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

“BLINDED BY IGNORANCE AND SELF-ABSORPTION, HUMANITY IS DESTROYING THE CREATION. THERE IS STILL TIME TO ASSUME THE STEWARDSHIP OF THE NATURAL WORLD THAT WE OWE TO FUTURE HUMAN GENERATIONS. PREVIOUS SPREAD”
― Edward O. Wilson, The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth

“Janet was a woman in whom early beauty had bred high expectations. Their disappointment brought with it a soured idealism, an idealism capable only of finding the world faulty.”
― John Updike, Couples