If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world-it's the American way of looking at things.

To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.

America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.

America is the longest argument in the world.

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old men.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.