Some People, Places, and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel Quotes

“You might say that he had lost the gift of evoking the perfumes of life: sea water, the smoke of burning hemlock, and the breasts of women. He had damaged, you might say, the ear's innermost chamber, where we hear the heavy noise of the dragon's tail moving over the dead leaves.”
― John Cheever, Some People, Places, and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel