760 Quotes by John Updike

Laws aren’t ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.

We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death and constant fear between. Our love has lifted us up, out of the dreadfulness of merely living.

I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody’s head.

Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other’s way, what a tangle.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.

Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you’re still in it.

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people’ll pay your price.

Women, fire in their crotch, won’t burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works.

We are most alive when we’re in love.