760 Quotes by John Updike

You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.

In art, anything goes, and if it goes, it goes.

The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.

The first breathe of adultery is the freest.

Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.

If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it.

There's something very reassuring... about the written record.

Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another.

In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip.