The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – 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
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
Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. – John Updike