"All love comes from the family...." - Quote by John Updike

“Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.”

“People are incorrigibly themselves.”

“There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.”

“We can sit here and talk about all the negativity, which we've done a little bit, but for every act of evil in the world, there are a million acts of kindness. Basically, our nature is to love each other and care about each other, and most of us do that. Most of us have no quarrel with anybody who's living on another side of the planet and who might have a different religious persuasion. It's just these small minorities to the far right and the far left who get all of the news time and print space.”

“The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.”

“O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell”

“My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.”

“That's the difference between family and friends. Family is always there, no matter what, even when it's not right next door. Which means that you'll find a way to keep the connection alive. Especially since you realize how important it is.”

“I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were.”