Quotes by Updike, John

Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is >>

Sex is like money; only too much is enough. >>

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed fro >>

Quotations about Materialism

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yi >>

Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten th >>

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals. >>

When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept -- the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.

Updike, John