...If you could ever get the poor to vote in this country, you'd have socialism. But people want to think rich. That's the genius of the capitalist s… - John Updike

That's the genius of the capitalist system: Either you're rich, or you want to be, or you think you ought to be.

You don’t stop caring, champ. You still care about that little girl whose underpants you saw in kindergarten. Once you care, you always care. That’s how stupid we are.

Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.

Days, pale slices between nights, they blend, not exactly alike, transparencies so lightly tinted that only stacked all together do they darken to a fatal shade.