Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
John Updike

We are most alive when we're in love.
John Updike

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
John Updike

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
John Updike

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.
John Updike

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
John Updike

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.
John Updike

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.
John Updike