John Updike

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that…

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own…

Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them…

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for…

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life…

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and…

Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has…

That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and…

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of…

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare…

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself…

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players…

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed…

Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the…

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone…