More quotes by John Updike

"Humor is my default mode."
"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding."
"American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism."
"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."
"Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn."