The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
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 CheeverThe main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.
John CheeverChildren drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts.
John Cheever