Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires—to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. ... He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. —chapter 8

Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.

Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.