All literary men are Red Sox fans – to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. – John Cheever
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. – John Cheever

All literary men are Red Sox fans – to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. – John Cheever
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. – John Cheever
Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. – John Cheever
The 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 Cheever