John Updike
  • Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

  • The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

  • Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

  • I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

  • Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.