All literary men are Red Sox fans—to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. - John Cheever

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

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

Strange and predatory and truly dangerous, car thieves and muggers—they seem to jeopardize all our cherished concepts, even our self-esteem, our property rights, our powers of love, our laws and pleasures. The only relationship we seem to have with them is scorn or bewilderment, but they belong somewhere on the dark prairies of a country that is in the throes of self-discovery.