Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being “somebody,” to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ce… - John Updike

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.