It is the inalienable right of every man, woman, and child to wear khaki.

Preppy clothes are built to last, since they certainly won't go out of style.

Wool, cotton, and the odd bits of silk and cashmere are the only acceptable materials for Prep clothes. They look better. They require professional maintenance. They are more expensive.

You can't regret what you can't remember.

Cynicism is more than a pose; it's also a handy time saver. By deflating your companion's enthusiasm, you can cut conversations in half.

In a true democracy everyone can be upper class and live in Connecticut.

A tip: if you're invited to your friend's country club to go the lost and found bin and pretend that you left something there. Next thing you know, you have a fabulous sweater.

Sarcasm mascarades as the Preppy's sense of humor.

Like everything else, Preppiness begins in the home.

The University of Miami is not a campus with visible school spirit, just visible tan lines.

If you tell a friend a secret, she will keep the secret by telling only one other person.

I still love to see the ballet. And I love to boogie.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection

My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It's kind of flipped, and I'm not mad about it, but my childhood dream is Broadway and I want to end up there.

Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.

Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the vast universe rather than to our own planet.

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.

Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.

‎This I know... That often when I sang, and drummed, and danced, I found my eternity.

I dwell 'neath the shades of Harvard In the State of the Sacred Cod, Where the Lowells speak only to Cabots And the Cabots speak only to God