I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.
John CheeverFiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of choice, but in a world that changes more swiftly that we can perceive there is always the danger that our powers of selection will be mistaken and that the vision we serve will come to nothing.
John Cheever