Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. – John Updike
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – John Updike

Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. – John Updike
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – 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
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another days progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. – John Updike
Well, it is so difficult right now when you look out on the road and how fast people go and the more and more cars you see out there, for teenagers, youd think a kid that literally, a few years before, was sitting back in a car seat in the back seat is now behind the wheel. – Amy Klobuchar