This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our minds there is perhaps even more that grates on our nerves.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered a good guy.

It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes on, while continuing to boast that they could live somewhere for twenty years without so much as exchanging pleasantries with their neighbors across the hall.

One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.

A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.

The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.