Quotes By Author: John Updike

“The thing about her is, she’s good-natured. He knew it the second he saw her standing by the parking meters. He could just tell from the soft way her belly looked. With women, you keep bumping against them, because they want different things, they’re a different race. Either they give, like a plant, or scrape, like a stone. In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman’s good nature.”

“Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?”

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

“Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.”

“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”