Sharing our depressions felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life.

This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.

The things that matter most are not things.

War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing.

No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a chance to fight for God and country.

Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.

Ascot is so exclusive that it is the only racecourse in the world where the horses own the people.