Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy And we [Americans] have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.

We go to Europe to be Americanized.

He was fairly happy, except that, like many people living in Europe, he would rather have been in America, and he had discovered writing.

If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to the lie.

The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another.