Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
John CheeverThe organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.
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 world that was not mine yesterday now lies spread out at my feet, a splendor. I seem, in the middle of the night, to have returned to the world of apples, the orchards of Heaven. Perhaps I should take my problems to a shrink, or perhaps I should enjoy the apples that I have, streaked with color like the evening sky.
John Cheever