Quotes by Cheever, John

People named John and Mary never divorce. For better or for worse, in >>

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

The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafnes >>

Quotations about Loneliness

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself. >>

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are differe >>

I celebrate myself, and sing myself. >>

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

Cheever, John