Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

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

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.

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 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.

Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance.