Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up magnificently-and a good half of it is palpably useless.

The editors are committed to nothing save this: to keep common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible, to give civilized entertainment.

The best client is a scared millionaire.

For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

There are no institutions in America: there are only fashions.

Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull

After all, the world is not our handiwork, and we are not responsible for what goes on in it, save within very narrow limits.