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
We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. – John Updike
It rots a writers brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily youre well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician. – John Updike
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. – John Updike