Quotes by : John Cheever

This shit about being fearless before death ain't got no quality. How could you say you were fearless....

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

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

I dream that someone in space says to me: So let us rush, then, to see the world. It is shaped like an....

Percy must have perceived, early in her marriage, that her husband’s lechery was compulsive and incurable,....

Mixed with the love we hold for our native country is the fact that it is the place where we were raised,....

A NEW CONQUEST always had a wonderful effect on Charlie. He became overnight generous, understanding,....

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to....

The novel remains for me one of the few forms...where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute,....

Oh, what can you do with a man like that? What can you do? How can you dissuade his eye in a crowd from....