"I will try not to panic, to..." - Quote by John Updike

“Most Americans haven't had my happy experience of living for thirteen years in a seventeenth-century house, since most of America lacks seventeenth-century houses.”

“The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.”

“Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.”

“Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult.”

“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”

“We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids.”

“Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.”

“The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.”

“The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.”