Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.
Louis KronenbergerOne of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.
Louis KronenbergerHighly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.
Louis KronenbergerIt is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes on, while continuing to boast that they could live somewhere for twenty years without so much as exchanging pleasantries with their neighbors across the hall.
Louis Kronenberger