Quotes from John Updike
All dancing is now is standing in place and letting the devil of the music enter you.
- John Updike
Mozart's music gives us permission to live.
- John Updike
Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs — To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music lest it should not find An echo in another's mind.
- John Updike
There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.
- John Updike
Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
- John Updike
People go around mourning the death of God; it's the death of sssin that bothers me. Without ssin, people aren't people any more, they're just ssoul-less sheep.
- John Updike
Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door.
- John Updike
God is in the tiger as well as in the lamb.
- John Updike
Christianity isn't looking for a rainbow. If it were... we'd pass out opium at services. We're trying to serve God, not be God.
- John Updike
It's spring! Farewell To chills and colds! The blushing, girlish World unfolds Each flower, leaf And blade of sod— Small letters sent To her from God.
- John Updike
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
- John Updike
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
- John Updike