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
The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class. - Paul Fussell
If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces. - Paul Fussell
The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified. - Paul Fussell
i find nothing more depressing than optimism. - 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. - Paul Fussell