760 Quotes by John Updike

My father provided; he gathered things to himself and let them fall upon the world; my clothes, my food, my luxurious hopes had fallen to me from him, and for the first time his death seemed, even at its immense stellar remove of impossibility, a grave and dreadful threat.

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

All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so.

The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination.

Time is our element, not a mistaken invader.

Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's.

A person believes various things at various times, even on the same day.

Cities aren't like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea.

The Internet doesn't like you to learn too much about explosives.