The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.
Source: Accepting National Book Award, The Writer, Sep 1958.
-- John Cheever, (May 27 1912-1982), US short-story writer, novelist; His work described, often through fantasy and ironic comedy, the life, manners, and morals of middle-class, suburban America.