Quote of the Day (John Updike, on How ‘Wickedness Was Like Food’)

“Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.” — American man of letters John Updike (1932-2009), The Witches of Eastwick (1984)

The image accompanying this post comes from the 1987 film adaptation of The Witches of Eastwick, with Jack Nicholson—in a supreme bit of typecasting—as Daryl Van Horne, an audacious, rascally devil.