John Updike

[Thelma] "...You make your own punishments in life, I honest to God believe that. You get exactly what you deserve. God sees to it."

He learned this much selling cars: offer the customer something he doesn't want, to make what he half-wants look better.

..."That disease he has does an awful job on you. Your lungs fill up."

Charlie asks her for a Perrier with lime. She says that San Pellegrino is what they have. He says it's all the same to him. Fancy water is fancy water.

"...This is a hideous thing. None of us will ever be the same."

[Mr Shimada] "Toyota does not enjoy bad games prayed with its ploduct."

[re the human heart] That little electric twitch: without it we're so much rotting meat.

[Harry to Janice, about the financial situation] "...You're in real trouble."

Women: you never know which side they want to dance on.

Your children's losing battle with time seems even sadder than your own.

[Pru, to Harry] She tells him, "You were one of the things I liked about Nelson. Maybe I thought Nelson would grow into somebody like you."

This is the last night when he is nowhere. Tomorrow, life will find him again.