Famous Quotes / John Updike
John Updike: "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?"
| Amid | Arise | Cosmic | Fiendish |
| Following | Genes | Having | Hypnotic |
| Inducements | Invented | Irresponsibility | Kill |
| Mate | Nature | Orders | Perfumed |
| Permits | Proof | Spirochetes | Tireless |
| Torture | Tribe | Viruses |