Quotes by : John Updike

In the purifying sweep of atheism human beings lost all special value. The numb misery of the horse was....

Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human....

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant of a teacher and a learner.

Sex is like money only too much is enough.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious....

There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the....

The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes....

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and....

Chinese food in Texas is the best Chinese food in the United States except Boston.