Quotes from John Updike
We are most alive when we're in love.
— John Updike
Live. Live, brothers, though there be naught but shame and failure to furnish forth your living.
— John Updike
Weeds don't know they're weeds.
— John Updike
And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?
— John Updike
Do what the heart commands. The heart is our only guide.
— John Updike
Love has its own ethics, which the deliberating will irrevocably offends.
— John Updike
It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.
— John Updike
Whatever men make, she says, what they felt when they made it is there...Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.
— John Updike
Was she asleep? He groped beside the bed, among his underclothes, for his wristwatch. He would soon learn, in undressing, to leave it lying discreetly visible. Its silent gold-rimmed face, a tiny banker's face, stated that he had already been out to lunch an hour and forty minutes. A sour burning began to revolve in his stomach.
— John Updike
Christianity isn't looking for a rainbow. If it were... we'd pass out opium at services. We're trying to serve God, not be God.
— John Updike
She went through some motions of housekeeping. Why was there nothing to sleep in but beds that had to be remade, nothing to eat from but dishes that had to be washed?
— John Updike
In the vacuum of the heart love falls forever.
— John Updike