Literary people often have favorite writers they quote perhaps a bit too often to their friends. But in a frightening commentary for The Onion, Tucker Vorhees describes his descent into a state of mind where he’s wonders, “Did I say that, or did John Updike?” He explains, “It’s sort of like that part from Updike’s In The Beauty Of The Lilies. Do you remember? Where it’s Tuesday, and Clarence is driving with his wife, and he says, ‘Helen, I have been having an affair with my receptionist. I want a divorce.’ It’s in the third chapter, I believe. Although, having given it a moment’s thought, it occurs to me I may have conflated that with something that happened to me roughly half an hour ago.”