John Updike Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009
Birthday: March 18
Death: January 27
What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?
source: John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.230, Random House
topic: Sex, Health, Order, Irresponsibility, Following Orders
