Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. – John Updike
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child.& Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. – John Updike
The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop. – John Updike
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – John Updike
Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease… and throw himself into roils and labors. – Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose, 1787