Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
John UpdikeThe artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.
John UpdikeI 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 Updike