"If the worst comes true, and the..." - Quote by John Updike

“What we need is progress with an escape hatch.”

“The days are short,The sun a sparkHung thin betweenThe dark and dark.”

“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.”

“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.”

“People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.”

“I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.”

“Whatever it is, handle it so that your children's children will get the benefit of it.”

“We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.”

“I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead.”