Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. – John Cheever
A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbeys gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind. – 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
All literary men are Red Sox fans – to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. – John Cheever
Im very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. Whats most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever. – Hugh Hefner