The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. – John Updike
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. – 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
It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian. – John Updike