# Quote — John Updike, Rabbit Remembered

> [Mim, to Nelson, after discussing Annabelle's stepfather being dead] "More and more is dead, are you old enough to notice? Vegas is dead, the way it was. [...] Now it's herds. Herds and herds of Joe Nobodies. Bozos. The hoi pollio, running up credit-card debt. Gambling is legal in half the states so they've built these huge moron-catchers along the Strip, all the way to the airport. A Pyramid, the Eiffel Tower, Venice – it's all here, Nelson, all for the morons. It's depressing as hell."

- Author: [John Updike](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-updike.md)
- Book: [Rabbit Remembered](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-updike/rabbit-remembered.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Updike#Rabbit_Remembered_(2000)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-updike/rabbit-remembered/mim-to-nelson-after

## More from this book

> "Did Nelson ever tell you the story," Pru asks Annabelle, "how he lost the agency up his nose?"

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-updike/rabbit-remembered/did-nelson-ever.md)

> His voice is hurrying, to keep up with his brain.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-updike/rabbit-remembered/his-voice-is-hurrying.md)

> [Annabelle] "...health care is an expanding field, as the world fills up with people that would have been dead a hundred years ago. Everybody winds up needing care, pretty much."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-updike/rabbit-remembered/annabelle-health-care.md)