I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melville still sit on those green hills. The worship of Mammon is also somewhat lessened there by the spirit of irony. I don't get hay fever in New England either.
John UpdikeIt skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation. Then an immense space opens up in silence and an endlessly fecund sub-universe the writer descends, and asks the reader to descend after him, not merely to gain instructions but also to experience delight, the delight of mind freed from matter and exultant in the strength it has stolen from matter.
John UpdikeThe difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.
John UpdikeI was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.
John Updike