Quote of the Day

“We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist without it, with a birth and a death and constant fear between. Our love has lifted us up out of the dreadful darkness of merely living.”

• John Updike

John Updike ( March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009), American writer of novels, short stories, and poetry, known for his careful craftsmanship and realistic but subtle depiction of “American, Protestant, small-town, middle-class” life.