Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.

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.

The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.

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

Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down, in an effort to make it palatable, in an effort to make it pay.

The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the other a mere hitching post of every star, lets every man lead a very enticing double life.