Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.

Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.