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
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike
Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. – John Updike