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
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
I cant write without a reader. Its precisely like a kiss – you cant do it alone. – John Cheever
I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it. – Ian MacKaye