Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. John Updike Marriage
The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. John Updike Architecture
We're past the age of heroes and hero kings... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting. John Updike Age
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop. John Updike Marriage
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. John Updike Marriage
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. John Updike Patience
Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. John Updike Life
Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed. John Updike Art
The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images. John Updike Beauty
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. John Updike Religion