It 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 KronenbergerWith intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.
Louis KronenbergerPrivacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.
Louis KronenbergerOne 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.
Louis Kronenberger