The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.

... the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.

The very notion of tabu is one of the rightest notions in the world. Better any old tabu than none, for a man cannot be said to be"on the side of the stars" at all, unless he makes refusals.

On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave the lying to the people who hate it. You will not find them indulging often.

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season.