"My dear friend Yevtushenko has, I claim, an ego that can crack crystal at a distance of twenty feet."

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John Cheever, in George Plimpton (ed.) Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Fifth Series (New York: Penguin, 1981) p. 121.