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
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one. – John Updike
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. – John Updike
We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. – John Updike