In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.

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.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

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

One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.