“My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visi...” — John Updike Quote

“My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with 'The Waste Land,' I opened their copy of 'Ulysses.' The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic.”

“In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip.”

“The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.”

“I had a lot of female role models around me as a kid, but my aunt Marcela Rodriguez was the strongest. When she was only 26, she opened Artes Culinarias Internacionales, one of the first culinary schools in Baja. She started with six students and built up to 800.”

“I never thought I would be able to play in Seoul, the city where my mother was raised and I was born, and I was able to perform for my aunt.”

“Dad's mother and aunt were actresses.”