"Without books, we might just melt into..." - Quote by John Updike

“Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.”

“The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.”

“A cynic is a kind of romantic who has aged.”

“Be awesome! Be a book nut!”

“Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.”

“Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.”

“The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.”

“I like to make use of what I know”

“Summary riposteTo the dreary wailThere's no knowing whatLove is all about.Poets know a lot.”