John Updike Quotes

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Just yesterday, it seems to him, she stopped being pretty. With the tiny addition of two short wrinkles at the corners, her mouth had become greedy; and her hair has thinned, so he keeps thinking of her skull under it. But he keeps hoping that tomorrow she'll be his girl again.

'And is each of us not proved to be a hive, a galaxy of cells each of whom is doubtless praying, from its pew in our thumbnail or oesophagus, for personal resurrection? Indeed, to the cells themselves cancer may seem a revival of faith.'

Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living elsewhere have to be in some sense kidding.

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.