I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey

There isn't a king or a merchant prince in the whole world that I envy, for I always knew I was born to be a child of destiny and that I was never meant to wring my living from detestable, low, degrading, mean and ordinary kinds of business.

I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

I believe that writing is an account of the powers of extrication.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.

Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.