How can we describe the most exalted experience of our physical lives [sex], as if-jack, wrench, hubcap, and nuts-we were describing the changing of a flat tire?
John CheeverThe main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.
John CheeverI've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.
John Cheever