We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

Only the insane take themselves seriously.

Nobody ever died of laughter.

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.

Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.