"I must go to Nature disarmed of..." - Quote by John Updike

“Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.”

“Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity.”

“I suppose sequels are inevitable for a writer of a certain age.”

“Yet what each one does is by no means of little moment. The grass has to put forth all its energy to draw sustenance from the uttermost tips of its rootlets simply to grow where it is as grass; it does not vainly strive to become a banyan tree; and so the earth gains a lovely carpet of green.”

“The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.”

“Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.”

“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of the political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.”

“I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.”

“Live in the opening wherethere is no door to hide behind.”