Fiction 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 CheeverFor lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.
John CheeverA lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
John CheeverI've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.
John Cheever