I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.
John CheeverMy God, the suburbs! They encircled the city's boundaries like enemy territory and we thought of them as a loss of privacy, a cesspool of conformity and a life of indescribable dreariness in some split-level village where the place name appeared in the New York Times only when some bored housewife blew off her head with a shotgun.
John CheeverThe main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.
John CheeverHomesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
John Cheever