John Hoyer Updike (18 March 1932 – 27 January 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. Use this quote
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. Use this quote
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. Use this quote
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. Use this quote
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. Use this quote
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. Use this quote
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. Use this quote
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. Use this quote
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. Use this quote
We are most alive when we're in love. Use this quote
