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'Whenever somebody tells me to do something my instinct's always to do the opposite. It's got me into a lot of trouble, but I've had a lot of fun.'
John Updike -
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
John Updike
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There's more to being a human being than having your own way.
John Updike -
We are most alive when we’re in love.
John Updike -
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
John Updike -
Thirty-six years old and he knows less than when he started. With the difference that now he knows how little he'll always know.
John Updike -
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
John Updike -
All this probing and grappling we must do, out in society: how much easier, Annabelle thinks, it is to stay in rooms you know as well as your own body, having a warm meal and an evening of television, where it's all so comfortably one-way.
John Updike