On any morning these days whole segments of the population wake up to find themselves famous, while, to keep matters shipshape, whole contingents of celebrities wake up to find themselves forgotten.

Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.

We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.

Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.

Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one may not inquire about.

In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire.