John Updike

Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John Updike - Problems and Other Stories
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
John Updike - Rabbit Redux
You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.

- John Updike