The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination. - Louis Kronenberger

There are, of course, good happy endings as well as bad ones, but surely they are of a kind that in some way expresses happiness rather than glibly promises it..

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.