What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike
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
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
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – John Updike