“He loved the world, and the world loved him.”
More from John Cheever
“I’ve been homesick for countries I’ve never been, and longed to be where I couldn’t be.”
“As he inflates his imagination, he inflates his capacity for anxiety, and inevitably…”
“We are told stories as children to help us bridge the abyss between waking and sleeping.…”
“Beginning in the fall, there was all this excitement about Christmas and how it was a day…”