Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

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.

He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.

This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our minds there is perhaps even more that grates on our nerves.

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.

Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep, one's sleeplessness.