A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic. John Updike Read Quote
American art in general… takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism. John Updike Read Quote
Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher’s, a batter’s and a fielder’s. John Updike Read Quote
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. John Updike Read Quote
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. John Updike Read Quote
Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark. John Updike Read Quote
An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal readers to discover them, will outlast him for a while. John Updike Read Quote
