Quotes by Cheever, John

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength t >>

Strange and predatory and truly dangerous, car thieves and muggers -- >>

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind. >>

Quotations about Delinquency

He that seeks trouble never misses. >>

Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian tha >>

We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. >>

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.

Cheever, John