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
What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike
Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. – John Updike
Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. – John Updike