It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.

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.

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

In art, there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.

Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.

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

London ... remains a man's city where New York is chiefly a woman's. London has whole streets that cater to men's wants. It has its great solid phalanx of fortress clubs.