John Cheever
  • Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

  • Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

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

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

  • All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.