It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies — John Updike
School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you, and industry can’t take you. — John Updike
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. — John Updike
I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is-its irresistible charm-a fire. — John Updike
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause. — John Updike
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. — John Updike
There is this quality in things, of the right was seeming wrong at first. To test our faith — John Updike
The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the soul’s very life. — John Updike
Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer — John Updike
When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical — John Updike
We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. — John Updike