Art is the triumph over chaos. - John Cheever

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil not the strength to choose between the two.

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

People named John and Mary never divorce. For better or for worse, in madness and in saneness, they seem bound together for eternity by their rudimentary nomenclature. They may loathe and despise one another, quarrel, weep, and commit mayhem, but they are not free to divorce. Tom, Dick, and Harry can go to Reno on a whim, but nothing short of death can separate John and Mary.