We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.
John Updike...but with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her stomach and if she gave him life she can take it away and if he feels that withdrawal it will be the grave itself.
John UpdikeThe artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.
John Updike