“Of all the millions of people in New York, I am practically the only one who has to get up in the cold black of 6 a.m. on Christmas Day in the morning; I am practically the only one.”
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.…”
“He loved the world, and the world loved him.”