We are American at puberty. We die French.

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.

...its a rather pleasant change when all your life you've had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into depths of confusion you didn't know existed.