Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
— John Updike
Famous Quotes
The city overwhelmed our expectations. The Kiplingesque grandeur of Waterloo Station, the Eliotic despondency of the brick row in Chelsea … the Dickensian nightmare of fog and sweating pavement and besmirched cornices.
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore, for instance, and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
At last, small witches, goblins, hags,Go haunt a night of pumpkin grins.
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.
Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.