I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. – John Updike
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation. One can either see or be seen. – John Updike
Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. – John Updike
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. – John Updike
I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they cant find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be. – Elizabeth Gilbert