The writer cultivates, extends, raises and inflates his imagination, sure that this is his destiny, his usefulness, his contribution to the understanding of good and evil. As he inflates his imagination he inflates his capacity for evil.
John CheeverAvoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair.
John CheeverNow working is terribly painful and I'm still having a fight with the booze. I've enlisted the help of a doctor but it's touch and go. A day for me; a day for the hootch.
John CheeverThe novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.
John Cheever