Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. – John Updike
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other peoples patience. – 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
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – John Updike