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. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty. – John Cheever
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. – John Cheever
It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong. – John Cheever
Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth. – Erwin Chargaff, Columbia Forum, Summer 1969