Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier — John Cheever
Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, — John Cheever
Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair. — John Cheever
The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, — John Cheever
He had that spooky bass voice meant to announce that he had entered the kingdom of manhood — John Cheever
I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of sutton place where the rude — John Cheever
People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy. — John Cheever
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one’s life and discover one’s usefulness. — John Cheever