The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.

I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.

What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.

No nostalgia runs deeper than that for something one has never known and now cannot obtain.

If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book a single—and singular—piece of wisdom so penetrating, so soul stirring, so utterly applicable to my own life as to make all the bad books I have read seem well worth the countless hours spent on them. My guess is that this wisdom, if it ever arrives, will do so in the form of a generalization.