"The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong."

“That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.”

“I'm what you'd call a regular guy with a big job.”

“Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere.”

Source : "Home Before Dark: A Personal Memoir of John Cheever by His Daughter". Book by Susan Cheever, 1985.

“Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.”

“Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses,”

Source : Catholic Church. Pope (1963-1978 : Paul VI), Pope Paul VI (1976). “On evangelization in the modern world: Apostolic exhortation Evangelii nuntiandi, December 8, 1975”

“You don't get Billie Joe Armstrong's autograph on your forehead without following your instincts.”

“If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.”

“We can't understand the universe in any clear way without the supernatural.”