Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
John CheeverThe deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
John CheeverWisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.
John CheeverTo be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim.
John CheeverFor me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle.... A page of good prose seems to me the most serious dialogue that well-informed and intelligent men and women carry on today in their endeavor to make sure that the fires of this planet burn peaceably.
John Cheever