The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop. - John Updike

The first breathe of adultery is the freest.

College is a rip-off, the professors are teaching you stuff because they’re getting paid to do it, not because it does you any good. They don’t give a fuck about geography or whatever any more than you do. It’s all phony, they’re there because parents don’t want their kids around the house past a certain age and sending them to college makes them look good. ‘My little Johnny’s at Haavahd.’

I like middles. . . It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.