“Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.”— John Cheever Related Quotes “But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, ’cause you’re not going to get it from what’s around you. And society isn’t going to give it to you.”– Jerry Garcia “I promise to pay you before you die – but you have to promise not to die.”— Jim Baen “If you don’t behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.”— Fulton J. Sheen