Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. – John Updike
That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. – John Updike
Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. – John Updike
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike