760 Quotes by John Updike

People are incorrigibly themselves.

I don't think women are dumb.

I have never liked haircuts.

All love comes from the family.

My father taught only math.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golfers become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies and is unvaccinated by suspicion.

For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.

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