What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more.
John UpdikeThe United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between the fantastic and the drab seems too narrow.
John UpdikePressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.
John UpdikeWhen we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept - the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.
John Updike