America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future. Instead, he has written his past.

In morals as in politics anarchy is not for the weak.

Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

If one means by style the voice, the irreducible and always recognizable and alive thing, then of course style is really everything.

When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.

Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it.

Old money is fully as moronic as new money but it has inherited an appearance of cultivation.