John Updike Doe Quotations

Why does one never hear of government funding for the preservation and encouragement of comic strips, girlie magazines and TV soap operas? Because these genres still hold the audience they were created to amuse and instruct.

The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our essential selves.

One does not go to Moscow to get fat.

Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?

Looking foolish does the spirit good.

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

Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.