You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. – John Updike
What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. – John Updike
Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. – John Updike
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.