The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost man. One would not want as a reader a man who did not appreciate the finesse of a double play.
John CheeverIt is not, as somebody once wrote, the smell of corn bread that calls us back from death; it is the lights and signs of love and friendship.
John CheeverAll literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
John Cheever