Paul Fussell

If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expect him to read it.

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class.

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

- Paul Fussell