At my back I hear the word— homosexual —and it seems to split my world in two.... It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that creates this terrifying erotic chaos. Information, a crumb of information, seems to light the world.


The Sixties, 1966 entry. - The Journals of John Cheever (1991)

John Cheever Quotes

At my back I hear the word— homosexual —and it seems to split my world in two.... It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that creates...

At my back I hear the word— homosexual —and it seems to split my world in two.... It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that creates...

At my back I hear the word— homosexual —and it seems to split my world in two.... It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that creates...

At my back I hear the word— homosexual —and it seems to split my world in two.... It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that creates...