John Cheever Quotes

"It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong."
-John Cheever in Nature quotes.

"All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life."
-John Cheever

"Homesickness is nothing Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time."
-John Cheever in Homesickness quotes.

"Art is the triumph over chaos."
-John Cheever in Art quotes.

"What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power."
-John Cheever in Literature quotes.

"People named John and Mary never divorce. For better or for worse, in madness and in saneness, they seem bound together for eternity by their rudimentary nomenclature. They may loathe and despise one another, quarrel, weep, and commit mayhem, but they are not free to divorce. Tom, Dick, and Harry can go to Reno on a whim, but nothing short of death can separate John and Mary."
-John Cheever

"Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world."
-John Cheever in Literature quotes.

"Strange and predatory and truly dangerous, car thieves and muggers -- they seem to jeopardize all our cherished concepts, even our self-esteem, our property rights, our powers of love, our laws and pleasures. The only relationship we seem to have with them is scorn or bewilderment, but they belong somewhere on the dark prairies of a country that is in the throes of self-discovery."
-John Cheever