“When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you ...” — John Updike Quote

“When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin.”

“Most Americans haven't had my happy experience of living for thirteen years in a seventeenth-century house, since most of America lacks seventeenth-century houses.”

“A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two.”

“I plan to die at my desk.”

“Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.”

“I was terrible at desk jobs.”