Quotes by Updike, John

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere pop >>

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is th >>

Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing >>

Quotations about Atheism

If you can't believe in God, chances are your God is too small. >>

Here lies an Atheist: All Dressed Up and No Place to Go. >>

By night an atheist half believes in God. >>

Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?

Updike, John