Blades Quote by John Updike

Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.

— John Updike

Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.

— John Updike

I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl…

— John Updike

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

— John Updike

I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.

— John Updike

Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle.

— John Updike

“The fucking world is running out of gas.”

— John Updike

The theme of old age doesn't seem to fascinate Hollywood.

— John Updike

“it was somehow wonderful of her to be, in every detail, herself.”

— John Updike

In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications…

— John Updike

“Her hair had been going gray as long as he could remember; she bundled it behind in a bun held with hairpins that he…

— John Updike