171 Quotes by John Cheever

Lo que sentía por Eduardo era más parecido a la nostalgia que al espíritu aventurero del amor tradicional, pero no era un sentimiento menos fuerte. Comprendió que, si verdaderamente buscaba la pureza, nunca la encontraría en sí mismo.

I am like a prisoner who is trying to escape from jail by the wrong route. For all one knows, that door may stand open, although I continue to dig a tunnel with a teaspoon.

Artemis was the sort of man who frequently proposed marriage, but at thirty he still had no wife.

I told her everything I could think of, even about my father being buried in the Protestant Cemetery.

Here she barked out her greetings in Italian, anxious to disassociate herself from the horseless American cowboys and above all from her own kind, the truly lost and unwanted, who move like leaves around the edges of the world, gathering only long enough to wait in line and see if there is any mail

Bradish had never had any occasion to experience self-righteousness other than the self-righteousness of the sinner.

Adultery and cruelty have well-marked courses of action but what can a man do when his wife wants to appear naked on the stage?

The study of Euclid put him into a compassionate and tranquil frame of mind, and illuminated, among other things, that his thinking and feeling had recently been crippled by confusion and despair.

I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.