For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. – John Updike
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. – 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
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