Called Updike

Famous quotes containing the words called and/or updike:

    she bit the towel and called on God
    and I saw her life stretch out . . .
    I saw her torn in childbirth,
    and I saw her, at that moment,
    in her own death and I knew that she
    knew.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
    —John Updike (b. 1932)