Children 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 CheeverFear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman.
John CheeverAvoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair.
John CheeverPeople look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.
John Cheever