the psychological attitudes which are indispensable in the American market place are disastrous to family life. Family life ... requires yieldingness, generosity, sympathy, altruism, tenderness-all the qualities, in fact, which lead straight to bankruptcy. ... the American family is tragically out of gear with the profit structure which has mushroomed up around it.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.

English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction to an introduction to it.

The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.

American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.

when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.