Quotes by John Updike

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is...

#Applause

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

#John Updike

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

#John Updike

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have...

#John Updike

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself...

#John Updike

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own...

#John Updike

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their...

#John Updike

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions,...

#John Updike

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of...

#John Updike

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

#Adultery

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that...

#Encouragement

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it...

#John Updike