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

Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and those who possess and honestly practice it make themselves more through a willingness to make themselves less.

Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the other a mere hitching post of every star, lets every man lead a very enticing double life.

Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.

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.