Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the lord. - John Cheever

The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, nearsightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.

..for the dead fish was striped like a cat and the sky was striped like the fish and the conch was whorled like an ear and the beach was ribbed like a dog's mouth and the movables in the surf splintered and crashed like the walls of Jericho.

Homesickness is nothing … Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.