But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
John UpdikeI still believe in the American Dream. I see it in terms of freedom, and a government that trusts its people to exercise freedom, that this is not a government that allows you to give, that allows you to explore, and doesn't dampen your own creativity - in the broadest sense - with a lot of dictums or dogmas or restraints. So, insofar as we can remain a free country that allows for the interplay of personal energies. I think this is still a country that is not only working towards a dream, but actually is the dream in action.
John UpdikeHemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other.
John Updike