My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.
John UpdikeThe Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
John UpdikeWe are each of us like our little blue planet, hung in black space, upheld by nothing but our mutual reassurances, our loving lies.
John UpdikeSo, you know, I think any life has in it enough material, enough points of departure, to fuel a writer's career and that we shouldn't worry about what we're not but to try to focus on what we are and what we do know.
John Updike