Quotes by John Updike

We are most alive when we're in love.

#Love

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

#Dreams

I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is-its irresistible charm-a fire.

#Television

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

#Money

Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second...

#Books

Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad; hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial...

#Beauty

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the...

#John Updike

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

#John Updike

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of...

#John Updike

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

#John Updike

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer...

#John Updike

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

#John Updike