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.
Joseph EpsteinIn recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
Joseph EpsteinA cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.
Joseph EpsteinPolitical correctness and so many of the political fashions of the day...could only be perpetrated in adolescent minds: minds, that is, that are trained to search out one thing and one thing only...Only an adolescent would find it worthwhile to devote his or her attention chiefly to the hunting of offenses, the possibility of slights, real and imagined.
Joseph Epstein